Re: define PG_REPLSLOT_DIR

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2024-08-20T14:15:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2024-Aug-19, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:

> diff --git a/src/include/common/relpath.h b/src/include/common/relpath.h
> index 6f006d5a93..a6cb091635 100644
> --- a/src/include/common/relpath.h
> +++ b/src/include/common/relpath.h
> @@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ typedef Oid RelFileNumber;
>  #define TABLESPACE_VERSION_DIRECTORY	"PG_" PG_MAJORVERSION "_" \
>  									CppAsString2(CATALOG_VERSION_NO)
>  
> +#define PG_TBLSPC_DIR "pg_tblspc"

This one is missing some commentary along the lines of "This must not be
changed, unless you want to break every tool in the universe".  As is,
it's quite tempting.

> +#define PG_TBLSPC_DIR_SLASH PG_TBLSPC_DIR "/"

I would make this simply "pg_tblspc/", since it's not really possible to
change pg_tblspc anyway.  Also, have a comment explaining why we have
it.

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Álvaro Herrera         PostgreSQL Developer  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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Commits

  1. Define PG_TBLSPC_DIR for path pg_tblspc/ in data folder

  2. Define PG_LOGICAL_DIR for path pg_logical/ in data folder

  3. Define PG_REPLSLOT_DIR for path pg_replslot/ in data folder