"Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
>> The reason for redeclaring these in the contrib files is to
>> get DLLIMPORT onto them...
> Interedting - it builds on MSVC without it :-O
> Anyway. That certainly explains why MSVC is complaining - it's getting
> completely different definitions of these variables from the header and
> from the actual file.
The same redeclaration technique is being used elsewhere (pg_buffercache
and pg_freespacemap it looks like). Aren't you getting warnings there
too?
regards, tom lane