Re: libpq's pollution of application namespace

On Mon, 2005-17-10 at 13:32 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I dislike portability approaches that try to enumerate supported cases,
> rather than being general in the first place.

Do we need to have this on every platform we support? The symbols we
want to hide are internal by convention anyway -- using a linker script
or similar technique just improves upon this by preventing applications
from misbehaving (and it also improves performance slightly). If no one
has bothered to add support for a particular platform's linker they
won't get these benefits, but that doesn't seem like a disaster.

-Neil