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Rationalizing declarations of src/common/ variables

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2021-11-29T05:57:29Z
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We've been burnt by this issue repeatedly (cf c2d1eea9e, d025cf88b,
11b500072) so I think it's time to try to formalize and document
what to do to export a variable from src/common/ or src/port/.

Here's a draft patch.  I'm not in love with the name "PGDLLIMPORT_FE"
and would welcome better ideas.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Simplify declaring variables exported from libpgcommon and libpgport.