Re: palloc unification

Robert Haas escribió:
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> > I propose to have a new subdirectory src/include/shared, and two
> > header files:

> > The frontend (pg_malloc) function definitions would live somewhere in,
> > say, src/shared/fe_memutils.c.  For the palloc() implementation, I think
> > we should create another file, so that frontend-only programs that do
> > not require those symbols (most of them) are not unnecessarily bloated.
> >
> > Opinions on having a new subdir?

> I like the idea of having a place for shared frontend and backend code
> very much, but I don't think src/include/shared or src/shared is a
> good name, because "shared" can mean a lot of things - like "shared
> library", for example.  I think that this should be set up in a manner
> analogous to libpgport, except not for portability code, but instead
> for other stuff.  Maybe we could call it libpgframework or something.

Yeah, I am doing this right now and the "shared" name doesn't seem so
good.  "libpgframework" sounds decent.  So since libpgport comes from
src/port, are we okay with src/framework and src/include/framework?

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