Re: Large C files

Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of sáb sep 03 20:18:47 -0300 2011:
> FYI, here are all the C files with over 6k lines:
> 
> -  45133 ./interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.c
> -  33651 ./backend/parser/gram.c
> -  17551 ./backend/parser/scan.c
>    14209 ./bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
>    10590 ./backend/access/transam/xlog.c
>     9764 ./backend/commands/tablecmds.c
>     8681 ./backend/utils/misc/guc.c
> -   7667 ./bin/psql/psqlscan.c
>     7213 ./backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c
>     6814 ./backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
>     6176 ./backend/utils/adt/numeric.c
>     6030 ./pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c
> 
> I have dash-marked the files that are computer-generated.  It seems
> pg_dump.c and xlog.c should be split into smaller C files.

I don't think there's any particular point to this general exercise (too
large for what?), but Simon had patches (or at least ideas) to split
xlog.c IIRC.

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