Re: [PATCHES] libpq type system 0.9a

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] libpq type system 0.9a
Date: 2008-04-09 15:51:45
Message-ID: 20854.1207756305@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com> writes:
> If you are suggesting that libpqtypes should not access internal libpq,
> than this idea won't work. We can pull all the code out and hook in, as
> you suggested, but we had no plans of abstracting from internal libpq.

That's exactly what I'm strongly suggesting. If you need to include
libpq-int.h at all, then your library will be forever fragile, and could
very well end up classified as "don't ship this at all, it's too likely
to break".

regards, tom lane

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