Re: define PG_REPLSLOT_DIR

On 2024-Aug-19, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:

> diff --git a/src/include/common/relpath.h b/src/include/common/relpath.h
> index 6f006d5a93..a6cb091635 100644
> --- a/src/include/common/relpath.h
> +++ b/src/include/common/relpath.h
> @@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ typedef Oid RelFileNumber;
> #define TABLESPACE_VERSION_DIRECTORY "PG_" PG_MAJORVERSION "_" \
> CppAsString2(CATALOG_VERSION_NO)
>
> +#define PG_TBLSPC_DIR "pg_tblspc"

This one is missing some commentary along the lines of "This must not be
changed, unless you want to break every tool in the universe". As is,
it's quite tempting.

> +#define PG_TBLSPC_DIR_SLASH PG_TBLSPC_DIR "/"

I would make this simply "pg_tblspc/", since it's not really possible to
change pg_tblspc anyway. Also, have a comment explaining why we have
it.

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