Re: AW: PG19beta1: GCC 16.1.1 warning: ‘actual_arg_types’ may be used uninitialized in clauses.c - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Álvaro Herrera
Subject Re: AW: PG19beta1: GCC 16.1.1 warning: ‘actual_arg_types’ may be used uninitialized in clauses.c
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Msg-id ajQXxk0eohQ8BNe9@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: AW: PG19beta1: GCC 16.1.1 warning: ‘actual_arg_types’ may be used uninitialized in clauses.c  (Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>)
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On 2026-Jun-18, Nathan Bossart wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 11:33:23AM +0000, Hans Buschmann wrote:
> > I also can confirm that this silences the compiler warning of GCC 16.1.1.
> 
> Thanks!  I'm debating whether to back-patch this to unsupported branches.
> IIUC it qualifies.  I'm getting ready to bump up the minimum supported
> version of pg_dump and friends to v10, so maybe I should stop there.  But
> also, stopping at v14 might be good enough for something small like this.
> Any opinions?

I'd stop at 14 and call it a day.  It doesn't prevent building, which is
IIRC the criteria we use for the older branches.

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