| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Preliminary patch for FRONTEND |
| Date: | 2004-10-01 04:20:19 |
| Message-ID: | 200410010420.i914KJk24485@candle.pha.pa.us |
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As many know, the FRONTEND usage of /src/port is very fragile. It
requires every binary that uses certain libpgport object files to create
its own version, which is very fragile, and could easily break if a
function call is added in a subrelease, especially on certain ports.
The following patch addresses this issue by making libpgport usable
unchanged by client applications, and makes a special server version for
the backend. This is much less fragile than trying to make sure you
hit every single binary that uses libpgport.
I originally tried abstracting out the #ifdef FRONTEND defines in pgport
but found that that wasn't easily done so making separate libraries was
cleaner.
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