Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 06/25/2014 11:36 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> >
> >>>- I completely loathe the file layout you've proposed in
> >>>src/include/storage. If we're going to have separate #include files
> >>>for each architecture (and I'd rather we didn't go that route, because
> >>>it's messy and unlike what we have now), then shouldn't that stuff go
> >>>in src/include/port or a new directory src/include/port/atomics?
> >>>Polluting src/include/storage with a whole bunch of files called
> >>>atomics-whatever.h strikes me as completely ugly, and there's a lot of
> >>>duplicate code in there.
> >I don't mind moving it somewhere else and it's easy enough to change.
>
> I think having a separate file for each architecture is nice. I
> totally agree that they don't belong in src/include/storage, though.
> s_lock.h has always been misplaced there, but we've let it be for
> historical reasons, but now that we're adding a dozen new files,
> it's time to move them out.
We also have a bunch of files in src/backend/storage/lmgr, both current
and introduced by this patch, which would be good to relocate. (Really,
how did lmgr/ end up in storage/ in the first place?)
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