Hi,
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 comes from
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20130204180327.GH4963@alvh.no-ip.org
which is part of the pg_xlogdump patch in commitfest.
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