On Saturday, September 29, 2012 01:54:37 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On Saturday, September 29, 2012 01:39:03 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Right offhand it doesn't seem like it really gains that much even for
> >> that use-case. You'd end up editing the include file either way, just
> >> slightly differently.
> >
> > Well, with USE_INLINE you have to recompile the whole backend because you
> > otherwise easily end up with strange incompatibilities between files.
>
> Eh? You would anyway, or at least recompile every .o file depending on
> that header, if what you want is to inline or de-inline the functions.
> There's no magic shortcut for that.
Well, --enable-depend copes with changing that in the header fine. As long as
its only used in a low number of files thats shorter than a full rebuild ;)
Anyway, changed.
Andres
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