Re: split TOAST support out of postgres.h
Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
From: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-01-10T07:39:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 06:07:49AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 30.12.22 17:50, Tom Lane wrote: > >Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> writes: > >>On 28.12.22 16:07, Tom Lane wrote: > >>>I dunno, #3 seems kind of unprincipled. Also, since fmgr.h is included > >>>so widely, I doubt it is buying very much in terms of reducing header > >>>footprint. How bad is it to do #2? > > > >>See this incremental patch set. > > > >Wow, 41 files requiring varatt.h is a lot fewer than I would have guessed. > >I think that bears out my feeling that fmgr.h wasn't a great location: > >I count 117 #includes of that, many of which are in .h files themselves > >so that many more .c files would be required to read them. > > committed SET_VARSIZE alone appears in 74 pgxn distributions, so I predict extension breakage en masse. I would revert this.
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New header varatt.h split off from postgres.h
- d952373a987b 16.0 landed