Re: Two weeks to feature freeze

Tom Lane wrote:
> BTW, I would not approve of a response along the lines of "can't you
> #ifdef to the point that there are no code changes in the Unix builds?"
> No you can't, unless you want to end up with an unmaintainable mess 
> of #ifdef spaghetti.  The thing that makes this hard is the tradeoff
> between making the code readable and maintainable (which requires
> sharing as much code as possible across platforms) vs isolating
> platform-specific considerations.  Programming at this level is not
> a science but an art form, and it's very hard to get it right the first
> time --- especially when none of us have access to all the platforms
> that the code must ultimately work on.

Exactly my point and the reason I am doing the entire fork+exec stuff 
over again. Bruce nagged me endlessly to commit the broken parts I had 
and fix them later. I never agreed with that philosophy because in my 
experience the worst workarounds live forever.


Jan

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