Re: LLVM 16 (opaque pointers)

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Ronan Dunklau <ronan(dot)dunklau(at)aiven(dot)io>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: LLVM 16 (opaque pointers)
Date: 2023-08-11 17:59:31
Message-ID: 20230811175931.dwyeq7dlmycxbwiz@awork3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2023-08-10 16:56:54 +0200, Ronan Dunklau wrote:
> I tried my hand at backporting it to previous versions, and not knowing
> anything about it made me indeed question my sanity. It's quite easy for PG
> 15, 14, 13. PG 12 is nothing insurmontable either, but PG 11 is a bit hairier
> most notably due to to the change in fcinfo args representation. But I guess
> that's also a topic for another day :-)

Given that 11 is about to be EOL, I don't think it's worth spending the time
to support a new LLVM version for it.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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