Global Variables (Was: Re: Discontent with development process (was:Re: pgaccess - the discussion is over) )

Mark (mlw) ... could you generate a listing of those variables you feel
would need to be moved to a 'global structure' and post that to the list?
That would at least give us a starting point, instead of both sides
guessing at what is/would be involved ...


On Tue, 14 May 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com> writes:
> >     As I understood it  the  idea  was  to  put  the  stuff,  the
> >     backends  inherit  from  the  postmaster,  into a centralized
> >     place, instead of having it spread out all  over  the  place.
> >     What's wrong with that?
>
> The main objection to it in my mind is that what had been private
> variables in specific modules now become exceedingly public.  Instead of
> looking at "static int foo" and *knowing* that all the references are in
> the current file, you have to go trolling the entire backend to see who
> is referencing pg_globals.foo.
>
> I have not counted to see how many variables are really affected; if
> there's only a few then it doesn't matter much.  But the people who
> have done this so far have all reported inserting tons of #ifdefs,
> which leads me to the assumption that there's a lot of 'em.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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