Re: late binding of shared libs for C functions

On 06/12/2018 08:46 AM, Andrew Gierth wrote:
>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Andrew> Perhaps something like NO CHECK would meet the case, i.e. we're
> Andrew> not checking the link at function creation time.
>
> The real question is why check_function_bodies doesn't cover this;
> there's a comment in fmgr_c_validator that this is deliberate, but it's
> rather unclear what the advantage is supposed to be:
>
> * It'd be most consistent to skip the check if !check_function_bodies,
> * but the purpose of that switch is to be helpful for pg_dump loading,
> * and for pg_dump loading it's much better if we *do* check.
>

Maybe we need a function that will validate all the links, that could be
called after everything is installed.

cheers

andrew

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