Re: Datum should be defined outside postgres.h

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Datum should be defined outside postgres.h
Date: 2007-10-27 17:28:24
Message-ID: 20071027172824.GA9579@feivel.credativ.de
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On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:04:19AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, that's surely a good idea, but there'll have to be some
> negotiation to figure out how to do that. None of those files are
> currently designed with any thought of being compilable outside the
> backend environment.
>
> The hard part really would be sharing gram.y and scan.l, especially in
> view of the fact that we need different actions. Do you have a plan
> for doing that?

Not yet, no. My only plan was to start tackling the topic by trying to
get scan.l into ecpg (seems to be easier than gram.y) and see what ecpg
needs and what not.

Michael
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