Re: Add PGDLLIMPORT lines to some variables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Noah Misch
Subject Re: Add PGDLLIMPORT lines to some variables
Date
Msg-id 20171205014125.GA3265301@rfd.leadboat.com
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In response to Re: Add PGDLLIMPORT lines to some variables  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: Add PGDLLIMPORT lines to some variables
List pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 12:02:30PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2017-11-20 11:58:44 -0800, Brian Cloutier wrote:
> > > please, append session_timezone to your list
> > 
> > Here's a v2 patch which also includes session_timezone.
> > 
> > Separately, is this the kind of thing which is eligible for backporting
> > into the next releases of 9.6 and 10?
> 
> I don't think we quite have an established protocol for this. I
> personally, but I'm biased in this specific case, is that we should
> adopt a position that PGDLLIMPORTs should basically backpatched whenever
> a credible extension even halfway reasonably requires it. There's no
> easy way to get this done by default, and we're so far unwilling to just
> slap this onto every variable. So to not further disadvantage people
> force dto live in the MS environment, that seems the sanest
> solution. It's not like these are high risk.

+1


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