Re: Enabling frontend-only xlog "desc" routines

On 2012-11-29 15:03:48 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > The other interesting question remaining is what to do about the rm_desc
> > function in rmgr.c.  We're split between these two ideas:
>
> Why try to link rmgr.c into frontend versions at all?  Just make
> a new table file that only includes the desc function pointers.
> Yeah, then there would be two table files to maintain, but it's
> not clear to me that it's uglier than these proposals ...

Seems more likely to get out of sync. But then, rmgr.c isn't changing
that heavily...
I still prefer the -DFRONTEND solutions, but once more, its only a
slight preference.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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