Re: palloc unification - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Phil Sorber
Subject Re: palloc unification
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In response to Re: palloc unification  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 6 February 2013 14:38, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> Robert Haas escribió:
>>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > I propose to have a new subdirectory src/include/shared, and two
>>> > header files:
>>
>>> > The frontend (pg_malloc) function definitions would live somewhere in,
>>> > say, src/shared/fe_memutils.c.  For the palloc() implementation, I think
>>> > we should create another file, so that frontend-only programs that do
>>> > not require those symbols (most of them) are not unnecessarily bloated.
>>> >
>>> > Opinions on having a new subdir?
>>
>>> I like the idea of having a place for shared frontend and backend code
>>> very much, but I don't think src/include/shared or src/shared is a
>>> good name, because "shared" can mean a lot of things - like "shared
>>> library", for example.  I think that this should be set up in a manner
>>> analogous to libpgport, except not for portability code, but instead
>>> for other stuff.  Maybe we could call it libpgframework or something.
>>
>> Yeah, I am doing this right now and the "shared" name doesn't seem so
>> good.  "libpgframework" sounds decent.  So since libpgport comes from
>> src/port, are we okay with src/framework and src/include/framework?
>
> "common" ?
>
> src/backend/common
> src/include/common

+1

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