Re: split TOAST support out of postgres.h
Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-01-10T08:48:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 10.01.23 08:39, Noah Misch wrote: > 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. Well, that was sort of my thinking, but people seemed to like this. I'm happy to consider alternatives.
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New header varatt.h split off from postgres.h
- d952373a987b 16.0 landed