Re: Proposal: Document ABI Compatibility

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Document ABI Compatibility
Date: 2024-06-12 14:34:14
Message-ID: 50CDA331-F276-4051-9A6E-32F1A72B645D@justatheory.com
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On Jun 12, 2024, at 8:58 AM, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl> wrote:

> While not strictly an ABI break I guess, the backport of 32d5a4974c81
> broke building Citus against 13.10 and 14.7[1].
>
> [1]: https://github.com/citusdata/citus/pull/6711

Interesting one. We might want to advise projects to use deferent names if they copy code from the core, use an extension-specific prefix perhaps. That way if it gets backported by the core, as in this example, it won’t break anything, and the extension can choose to switch.

D

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