Re: [PATCH] Generic type subscription - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Aleksander Alekseev
Subject Re: [PATCH] Generic type subscription
Date
Msg-id 20161115080324.GA5351@e733.localdomain
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: [PATCH] Generic type subscription  (Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: [PATCH] Generic type subscription
List pgsql-hackers
Hello.

I took a look on the latest -v4 patch. I would like to note that this
patch breaks a backward compatibility. For instance sr_plan extension[1]
stop to compile with errors like:

```
serialize.c:38:2: error: unknown type name ‘ArrayRef’ JsonbValue *ArrayRef_ser(const ArrayRef *node, JsonbParseState
*state,
bool sub_object); ^
serialize.c:913:2: error: unknown type name ‘ArrayRef’ JsonbValue *ArrayRef_ser(const ArrayRef *node, JsonbParseState
*state,
bool sub_object) ^
In file included from sr_plan.h:4:0,                from serialize.c:1:

...

```

Other extensions could be affected as well. I'm not saying that it's a
fatal drawback, but it's definitely something you should be aware of.

I personally strongly believe that we shouldn't break extensions between
major releases or at least make it trivial to properly rewrite them.
Unfortunately it's not a case currently.

[1] https://github.com/postgrespro/sr_plan

--
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Haribabu Kommi
Date:
Subject: Re: Patch: Write Amplification Reduction Method (WARM)
Next
From: Magnus Hagander
Date:
Subject: Snapshot too old logging