Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 22:08:39 -0500
From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>,
	David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org,
	"Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>,
	Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Subject: Re: pg_ls_tmpdir to show directories and shared filesets (and
 pg_ls_*)
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On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 08:53:25PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> I'm still waiting to hear feedback from a commiter if this is a good idea to
> put this into the system catalog.  Right now, ts_debug is the only nontrivial
> function.

I'm still missing feedback from committers about the foundation of this
approach.

But I finally looked into the pg_rewind test failure 

That led met to keep the "dir" as a separate column, since that's what's needed
there, and it's more convenient to have a separate column than to provide a
column needing to be parsed.

-- 
Justin

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