Re: abi-compliance-checker

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: abi-compliance-checker
Date: 2023-05-28 13:48:44
Message-ID: 85173.1685281724@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> writes:
> Attached is a html report that was generated by a tool called
> abi-compliance-checker/abi-dumper [1][2] (by using
> "abi-compliance-checker -l libTest ... ") . I deliberately introduced
> 2 ABI compatibility issues affecting postgres, just to see what the
> tool had to say about it.

This seems pretty cool. I agree that we're in dire need of some
tool of this sort for checking back-branch patches. I wonder
though if it'll have false-positive problems. Have you tried it
on live rather than mocked-up cases, for instance 13.0 vs 13.11?

regards, tom lane

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