Re: pgwin32_safestat weirdness

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgwin32_safestat weirdness
Date: 2008-04-15 07:53:36
Message-ID: 20080415095336.2f2c0d48@mha-laptop
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > I would be quite happy with that, but before we go down that path
> > I'd like to know why the MSVC builds aren't failing now from this
> > when the MinGW builds are.
>
> Maybe the MSVC linker is willing to bind libpq's call to a safestat
> copy extracted from libpgport.a in the surrounding program --- IOW,
> it works only for calling programs that include libpgport, but all
> ours do.

Actually, on msvc we link libpq against libpgport, and not the
individual files. Since we have a defined export list, it should remove
all the unused functions automatically.

//Magnus

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