On 2017-06-28 13:31:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm not hearing anyone speaking against doing this now, so I'm going
> to go ahead with it.
Cool.
> While looking this over again, I got worried about the fact that pg_ctl
> is #including "miscadmin.h". That's a pretty low-level backend header
> and it wouldn't be surprising at all if somebody tried to put stuff in
> it that wouldn't compile frontend-side. I think we should take the
> opportunity, as long as we're touching this stuff, to split the #defines
> that describe the contents of postmaster.pid into a separate header file.
> Maybe "utils/pidfile.h" ?
Yes, that sounds like a valid concern, and solution.
- Andres
