Re: Building PostgreSQL 9.6devel sources with Microsoft Visual C++ 2015?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Ick. Even if that works today, it seems absolutely guaranteed to fail
> in future, as soon as Microsoft either puts back the visible declaration
> or changes the struct contents. If they've made a conscious decision
> to not export the struct anymore, it's likely because they intend to
> change it ... so I'd put the half-life of this "fix" at no more than one
> Visual Studio release.

Yes. You right. But at the moment, it's better than nothing. In addition,
we can then do something like this:
#if _MSC_VER >= 1800 && _MSC_VER < 1820

after MS push fix.

> Hopefully, if they removed the visible declaration intentionally, they
> provided some other way to get at those locale names. That's what we
> need to be looking for, not hoping that direct access to undocumented
> structures will continue to work.

It's more like a simple bug after refactoring. But I will try find another
way. (I don't like undocumented structures)

Thanks.
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