Re: AllocSetContextCreate changes breake extensions

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>
Subject: Re: AllocSetContextCreate changes breake extensions
Date: 2018-10-12 18:50:46
Message-ID: 6997.1539370246@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2018-10-12 13:51:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Shall we also backpatch the ALLOCSET_*_SIZES macros as Christoph
>> suggested? I'm not convinced of the usefulness of that, since
>> extensions would still have to cope with them not being present
>> when building against existing minor releases.

> I'd do so. Many extensions are fine just building against a relatively
> new minor release. Won't help extension authors in the next few months,
> but after that...

I'm still not very convinced, but it's easy and harmless, so done.

regards, tom lane

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