On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 at 10:27, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
> I think we should commit the pg_list.h changes, since the C-style
> compound literals are not a C++ feature at all, and so without this MSVC
> would never get supported. (Or you couldn't use PostgreSQL lists, which
> would be very limiting.)
Sounds good to me.
> The other changes deal with designated initializers and flexible array
> members. These are not a blocker, since extension authors could deal
> with them themselves by adding appropriate compiler options or similar.
I think we should add these flags to CXXFLAGS for MSVC by default,
similar to how we add -std=gnu++11/-std=c++11 for other compilers. We
can then document on the C++ extension docs page, that MSVC compilers
require C++20 support.
