Re: Fix pg_dump dependency on postgres.h - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> > Huh, I think the point is to be able to build 8.3 at all on certain
> > Solaris releases.  I think it qualifies as a portability fix.
>
> (a) it wasn't "to build at all", it was to allow "inline" to be enabled
> on Sun Studio's compiler, which apparently is too dumb to not generate
> copies of an unreferenced inline function.
>
> (b) portability fix or not, this ain't going into 8.3.  It's *far* too
> invasive for this late stage of the cycle.

Yea, that was my analysis too.

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