
eliminating some wildly inconsistent coding in various parts of the system. I set MAXPGPATH = 1024 in config.h.in. If anyone is really convinced that there ought to be a configure-time test to set the value, go right ahead ... but I think it's a waste of time.
The utils directory contains components that are used by multiple subsystems in the Postgres source tree. We don't want subsystems reaching into other subsystems' directories and messing with the modularity of the system, so we gather any cross-subsystem utilities here. In particular, programs that form an interface between subsystems go here.