On 9/30/21 8:25 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bdrouvot@amazon.com> writes:
>> On 9/30/21 7:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> PS: Memo to self: in the back branches, the new field has to be
>>> added at the end of struct Portal.
>> out of curiosity, why?
> Sticking it into the middle would create an ABI break for any
> extension code that's looking at struct Portal, due to movement
> of existing field offsets. In HEAD that's fine, so we should
> put the field where it makes the most sense. But we have to
> be careful about changing globally-visible structs in released
> branches.
Got it, thanks!
Bertrand
