Re: PostgreSQL does not compile on macOS SDK 15.0

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Stan Hu <stanhu(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL does not compile on macOS SDK 15.0
Date: 2024-07-05 00:04:01
Message-ID: 106836.1720137841@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I had been thinking that I should try harder to make the pg_ prefix
> compile-time configurable (imagine some kind of string-pasting macros
> constructing the names), so that TCL and PG could have fewer diffs.
> But we're already not doing that for the function names, so unless Tom
> wants me to try to do that...?

Nah, I don't see much point in that.

> It's a funny position to finish up in: we have pg_ functions, pg_
> types but still standard REG_XXX macros. In the future someone might
> want to rename them all to PG_REG_XXX, so that we completely move out
> of the way of the system regex stuff. But not today, and certainly
> not in back-branches.

That would be an API break for any extensions using our regex code,
so I'm not especially in favor of it.

regards, tom lane

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