Re: pg_checksums: Reorder headers in alphabetical order

On Sat, Sep 21, 2024 at 02:48:32PM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On 2024/09/21 12:09, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com> writes:
>> > I don´t have any objections to this commit, but I´d like to confirm
>> > whether we really want to proactively reorder #include directives,
>> > even for standard C library headers.
>>
>> I'm hesitant to do that. We can afford to insist that our own header
>> files be inclusion-order-independent, because we have the ability to
>> fix any problems that might arise. We have no ability to do something
>> about it if the system headers on $random_platform have inclusion
>> order dependencies. (In fact, I'm fairly sure there are already
>> places in plperl and plpython where we know we have to be careful
>> about inclusion order around those languages' headers.)
>>
>> So I would tread pretty carefully around making changes of this
>> type, especially in long-established code. I have no reason to
>> think that the committed patch will cause any problems, but
>> I do think it's mostly asking for trouble.
>
> Sounds reasonable to me.

Oh, sorry. I thought it was project policy to keep these alphabetized, and
I was unaware of the past problems with system header ordering. I'll keep
this in mind in the future.

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nathan