Re: pgsql: Refactor pg_get_line() to expose an alternative StringInfo-based - Mailing list pgsql-committers

On 2020-Sep-07, Tom Lane wrote:

> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> > here is a patch
>
> What exactly is this supposed to fix?
>
> I didn't bother tracking down exactly where initdb.c is getting
> stringinfo.h from, but it clearly does import it somewhere in
> our rat's nest of headers.

You can see it here: https://doxygen.postgresql.org/initdb_8c.html
It's through xlog_internal.h (not that it matters much).

We do the indirect-header thing all over the place.  There's no point in
trying to avoid it completely.

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