Re: headerscheck: Avoid mutual inclusion of pg_config.h and c.h

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-03-30T08:19:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 23.03.26 09:50, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Headers that c.h includes early should not have another header included 
> before them in the headerscheck test file, especially not c.h.
> 
> A particular instance of a problem is that pg_config.h defines some 
> symbols that c.h later undefines in some cases, such as in the code 
> added by commit cd083b54bd67, but there were also some before that. This 
> only works correctly if pg_config.h is included first.
> 
> This problem can currently be observed on CI.
> 
> pg_config_manual.h and pg_config_os.h are closely related to pg_config.h 
> and should be treated the same way.
> 
> postgres_ext.h is meant to be usable standalone, so testing it with c.h 
> included first defeats the point.
> 
> c.h also includes port.h, but this patch leaves that alone, since port.h 
> does need some of c.h to be processed first.  (But because of header 
> guards, testing port.h separately is probably ineffective.)

This has been committed.




Commits

  1. headerscheck: Avoid mutual inclusion of pg_config.h and c.h

  2. Make typeof and typeof_unqual fallback definitions work on C++11