Re: Preliminary patch for FRONTEND

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > The following patch addresses this issue by making libpgport usable
> > unchanged by client applications, and makes a special server version for
> > the backend.
>
> This raises some alarm bells for me.  Why does a "port support" library
> need to distinguish whether it is running in frontend or backend?
> Certainly the standard Unix library calls that it is purporting to
> replace do not care.

Already described --- ereport, memory allocation, and thread safety.

> Also, the patch does both more and less than I'd expect from your
> description.  Why are there no changes at all to C code?  And how can
> you just remove, eg, dirmod.c and exec.c from pg_resetxlog?

Basically libpgport now is compiled for the frontend so it just gets it
from the link line rather than build its own.

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