Re: mkid reference

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-01-26T16:03:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 4:38 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 01:07:36PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > There's also src/tools/make_mkid which use this mkid tool.  +1 for removing.
> > > If anything, it seems better replaced by extended documentation on the existing
> > > wiki article [0] on how to use "git format-patch".
> >
> > I found man pages for mkid online --- it's apparently a ctags-like
> > code indexing tool, not something for patches.  So maybe Bruce still
> > uses it, or maybe not.  But as long as we've also got make_ctags and
>
> Yes, I do still use it, so I thought having a script to generate its
> index files might be helpful to someone.

Where do you actually get it? The old docs (now removed) suggested
getting it off ftp.postgresql.org...

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 Magnus Hagander
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Commits

  1. Remove make_diff set of tools