Introduce PG_MODULE_MAGIC_EXT macro.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 9324c8c580655800331b0582b770e88c01b7a5c4
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2025-03-26T15:06:12Z
Releases: 18.0
Introduce PG_MODULE_MAGIC_EXT macro.

This macro allows dynamically loaded shared libraries (modules) to
provide a wired-in module name and version, and possibly other
compile-time-constant fields in future.  This information can be
retrieved with the new pg_get_loaded_modules() function.

This feature is expected to be particularly useful for modules
that do not have any exposed SQL functionality and thus are
not associated with a SQL-level extension object.  But even for
modules that do belong to extensions, being able to verify the
actual code version can be useful.

Author: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yurii Rashkovskii <yrashk@omnigres.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dd4d1b59-d0fe-49d5-b28f-1e463b68fa32@gmail.com

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