Re: A micro-optimisation for walkdir() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Juan José Santamaría Flecha
Subject Re: A micro-optimisation for walkdir()
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Msg-id CAC+AXB3urjeAOEAaU6Fb0uQsDhMYzmQpELkO9tMVW_ixU56pAw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: A micro-optimisation for walkdir()  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Re: A micro-optimisation for walkdir()
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 4:35 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> You don't need to call stat() just to find out if a dirent is a file
> or directory, most of the time.  Please see attached.

Hm.  If we do this, I can see wanting to apply the knowledge in more
places than walkdir().

Win32 could also benefit from this micro-optimisation if we expanded the dirent port to include d_type. Please find attached a patch that does so.

Regards,

Juan José Santamaría Flecha
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