Re: initdb -S and tablespaces

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> >> Also, it seems awfully unfortunate to me that we're duplicating a
> >> whole pile of code into xlog.c here.  Maybe there's no way to avoid
> >> the code duplication, but pre_sync_fname() seems like it'd more
> >> naturally go in fd.c than here.  I dunno where walkdir should go, but
> >> again, not in xlog.c.
> >
> > Hm, there's an interest in backpatching this as a bugfix, if I
> > understand correctly; hence the duplicated code.  We could remove the
> > duplicity later with a refactoring patch in master only.
> 
> That seems pretty silly.  If we going to add pre_sync_fname() to every
> branch, we should add it to the same (correct) file in all of them,
> not put it in xlog.c in the back-branches and fd.c in master.

Ah, so that's not the duplicate code that I was remembering -- I think
it's walkdir() or something like that, which is in initdb IIRC.

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