Tom Lane wrote:
> Can't completely get rid of #ifndef FRONTEND in palloc.h :-(
>
> pg_controldata includes postgres.h not postgres_fe.h, so utils/palloc.h
> must be able to compile in a "#define FRONTEND" context.
Hmm, I had this patch in an abandoned branch from long ago, which I
think helped remove postgres.h from pg_controldata. I remembered it
just now because of this commit message. Maybe it's useful to re-remove
the #ifndef FRONTEND from palloc.h.
It's not rebased to latest master and maybe even not complete; if people
think this approach is worthwhile I can try and clean it up and
proposely more seriously; LMK. (Also if people think it needs futher
tweaks. I vaguely recall I didn't propose it back then because the set
of stuff in the new header could be tweaked.)
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