Re: Retire src/backend/port/dynloader/linux.c ?

On 2016-12-18 22:19:36 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)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