Re: split rm_name and rm_desc out of rmgr.c

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> pg_xlogdump needs access to the *_desc functions for each rmgr.  We
> already moved forward quite a bit by splitting those functions out of
> their containing files; so now they are compilable separately.  Good.
> The remaining task is enabling the code to find those functions in the
> first place; currently, the function pointers live in rmgr.c which is
> not compilable by frontend code because it contains pointers to other
> functions.  Hence the attached patch splits RmgrData into two; the names
> and rm_desc functions go into a new file which can be compiled easily by
> frontend.

> Proposed patch attached.

This seems pretty ugly to me.

Couldn't we do something similar to the design for SQL keyword constants,
wherein the actual data is in macros in a header file (providing exactly
one source of truth for each RM) and then various .c files can #include
that after #defining the macro as they need?  See
src/include/parser/kwlist.h and the files that include that.
        regards, tom lane