Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add PGFILEDESC description to Makefiles for all /contrib

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add PGFILEDESC description to Makefiles for all /contrib
Date: 2010-05-12 23:47:03
Message-ID: 201005122347.o4CNl3Q10985@momjian.us
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bruce wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > > All other binaries had such a designation, and all /contrib binaries
> > > were missing them. I assume I was doing cleanup. You want the icon
> > > removed from the backend makefile?
> >
> > Yes. I'm prepared to believe that not having the icons set on the
> > contrib executables was an oversight. I'm much less prepared to assume
> > that not marking the postgres executable was an oversight. Again,
> > unless you *know* that this change is needed and appropriate, now is
> > not the time to be making it, and especially not without discussion.
>
> OK, done with attached patch, and I added a comment about why it is not
> labeled.

I did some research on PGFILEDESC and it does what I thought it does ---
in embeds the 'ico' file into the executable in
/pg/tools/msvc/Project.pm, and the image looks like the attached JPEG.
The image is of a blue elephant head.

So, currently, every binary uses that icon, except for the postmaster.
Is that what we want? You could make the argument that a daemon, like
the postmaster, shouldn't have one, which I think is Tom's point.

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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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