Re: [HACKERS] Retire src/backend/port/dynloader/linux.c ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Retire src/backend/port/dynloader/linux.c ?
Date
Msg-id 20161219035510.4svp7dw2ghv4byj4@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Retire src/backend/port/dynloader/linux.c ?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2016-12-18 22:19:36 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > Shouldn't we just remove that code?
> 
> What for?

I every now and then end up looking at it for a few minutes, and wonder
what the hell dld is, just to see that it's old stuff.

> It's maintenance-free ... hasn't been touched since 2004.
> While I agree with you that it's *probably* dead code, it's hard to
> see much upside from removing it.
> 
> If we want to get into arguing whether code is dead or not, there's
> an awful lot of potentially removable stuff in the tree, but I doubt
> it's worth the trouble to figure out what's really dead.

Well, it's sometimes annoying to hit the code while looking around
that's actually dead. But I don't feel that strongly.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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