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

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Fix pg_dump dependency on postgres.h
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Msg-id 20071121124735.GE4918@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Fix pg_dump dependency on postgres.h  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.

Oh, right, I misremembered that it was only to allow inline.

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