Re: BUG #8139: initdb: Misleading error message when current user not in /etc/passwd

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 05:23:43PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Are we not moving items over to common where appropriate?
>
> I don't think we're moving code from src/port to src/common just for the
> heck of it; but ISTM if we're adding new code which belongs to
> src/common, and there's a natural file for it in src/port which should
> arguably also be in src/common, then it makes sense to put both the new
> code and the old file together in src/common.
>
> Note that nothing in src/port should depend on stuff in src/common.  As
> I see it, src/port is very bare-bones stuff which src/common builds on
> top of.  It might also make sense, in some cases, to consider low-level
> routines in src/port that are used by higher level routines in
> src/common.

OK, C file moved from /port to /common.

> >  Are we worried about bring external applications?
>
> Please rephrase.  What are we worried about?

I was asking if we did not move old functions from port to common
because of concern about breaking 3rd party applications.

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