Re: Add PGDLLIMPORT lines to some variables

On 21 November 2017 at 04:02, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please quote properly on postgres mailing lists... We're old school [tm].
>
> On 2017-11-20 11:58:44 -0800, Brian Cloutier wrote:
> > > please, append session_timezone to your list
> >
> > Here's a v2 patch which also includes session_timezone.
> >
> > Separately, is this the kind of thing which is eligible for backporting
> > into the next releases of 9.6 and 10?
>
> I don't think we quite have an established protocol for this. I
> personally, but I'm biased in this specific case, is that we should
> adopt a position that PGDLLIMPORTs should basically backpatched whenever
> a credible extension even halfway reasonably requires it. There's no
> easy way to get this done by default, and we're so far unwilling to just
> slap this onto every variable. So to not further disadvantage people
> force dto live in the MS environment, that seems the sanest
> solution. It's not like these are high risk.
>
>
+1

I'm all in favour of backports to the last supported release or the first
one the variable appeared in.

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