Re: Proposal: Document ABI Compatibility - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: Proposal: Document ABI Compatibility
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Msg-id 50CDA331-F276-4051-9A6E-32F1A72B645D@justatheory.com
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In response to Re: Proposal: Document ABI Compatibility  (Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>)
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On Jun 12, 2024, at 8:58 AM, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> wrote:

> While not strictly an ABI break I guess, the backport of 32d5a4974c81
> broke building Citus against 13.10 and 14.7[1].
>
> [1]: https://github.com/citusdata/citus/pull/6711

Interesting one. We might want to advise projects to use deferent names if they copy code from the core, use an
extension-specificprefix perhaps. That way if it gets backported by the core, as in this example, it won’t break
anything,and the extension can choose to switch. 

D




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