Re: remove pg_restrict workaround - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: remove pg_restrict workaround
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Msg-id f2482585-1be0-4545-b7d5-1256f525be8c@eisentraut.org
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In response to Re: remove pg_restrict workaround  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 15.10.25 15:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> writes:
>> When in C11 mode, MSVC supports the standard "restrict" keyword, so we
>> don't need the workaround with using "pg_restrict" instead anymore.
>> (Just for clarification, restrict is a C99 feature, but MSVC only
>> accepts it properly in C11 mode.)  So I'm proposing to remove that
>> workaround here, so that code can use the standard restrict keyword
>> without having to worry about the alternative spelling.
> 
> Won't this break extensions that are using pg_restrict?  Sure, they
> could update their code, but then maybe it wouldn't work anymore
> against previous branches.  Seems like it'd be better to leave
> pg_restrict in place (for awhile anyway) but always #define it
> as "restrict".  I don't mind ceasing to use it within our own tree
> though.

Committed with a backward compatibility define.




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