Re: Datum should be defined outside postgres.h - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zdenek Kotala
Subject Re: Datum should be defined outside postgres.h
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Msg-id 4720B886.8080102@sun.com
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In response to Re: Datum should be defined outside postgres.h  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Why in the world is ecpg including either primnodes.h or postgres.h?
> 
>> The problem is that ecpg shares parser.c source code and this code 
>> includes postgres.h.
> 
> ecpg cannot do that.  It would fail if parser.c happened to use anything
> that won't compile in frontend, eg elog() or palloc().  It's mere luck
> that it's worked for him so far.
> 
> Considering that ecpg has its own copy of all of gram.y and scan.l,
> sharing parser.c isn't much of a savings anyway.

OK. I will create separate infrastructure fix for ecpg.

    Zdenek


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