Re: abi-compliance-checker - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: abi-compliance-checker
Date
Msg-id 85173.1685281724@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to abi-compliance-checker  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
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Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
> Attached is a html report that was generated by a tool called
> abi-compliance-checker/abi-dumper [1][2] (by using
> "abi-compliance-checker -l libTest ... ") . I deliberately introduced
> 2 ABI compatibility issues affecting postgres, just to see what the
> tool had to say about it.

This seems pretty cool.  I agree that we're in dire need of some
tool of this sort for checking back-branch patches.  I wonder
though if it'll have false-positive problems.  Have you tried it
on live rather than mocked-up cases, for instance 13.0 vs 13.11?

            regards, tom lane



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