Re: Building PostgreSQL 9.6devel sources with MicrosoftVisual C++ 2015? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Building PostgreSQL 9.6devel sources with MicrosoftVisual C++ 2015?
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Msg-id 29010.1453412564@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Building PostgreSQL 9.6devel sources with MicrosoftVisual C++ 2015?  (Yury Zhuravlev <u.zhuravlev@postgrespro.ru>)
Responses Re: Building PostgreSQL 9.6devel sources with MicrosoftVisual C++ 2015?
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Yury Zhuravlev <u.zhuravlev@postgrespro.ru> writes:
> +#if _MSC_VER >= 1800
> +    //From VS2012.
> +    typedef struct localerefcount
> +    {
> +        char *locale;
> +        wchar_t *wlocale;
> +     ... etc etc ...

Ick.  Even if that works today, it seems absolutely guaranteed to fail
in future, as soon as Microsoft either puts back the visible declaration
or changes the struct contents.  If they've made a conscious decision
to not export the struct anymore, it's likely because they intend to
change it ... so I'd put the half-life of this "fix" at no more than one
Visual Studio release.

Hopefully, if they removed the visible declaration intentionally, they
provided some other way to get at those locale names.  That's what we
need to be looking for, not hoping that direct access to undocumented
structures will continue to work.

            regards, tom lane


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