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Re: AW: PG19beta1: GCC 16.1.1 warning: ‘actual_arg_types’ may be used uninitialized in clauses.c

Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>

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From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans Buschmann <buschmann@nidsa.net>, Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-06-18T16:08:12Z
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On 2026-Jun-18, Nathan Bossart wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 11:33:23AM +0000, Hans Buschmann wrote:
> > I also can confirm that this silences the compiler warning of GCC 16.1.1.
> 
> Thanks!  I'm debating whether to back-patch this to unsupported branches.
> IIUC it qualifies.  I'm getting ready to bump up the minimum supported
> version of pg_dump and friends to v10, so maybe I should stop there.  But
> also, stopping at v14 might be good enough for something small like this.
> Any opinions?

I'd stop at 14 and call it a day.  It doesn't prevent building, which is
IIRC the criteria we use for the older branches.

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  1. Silence "may be used uninitialized" compiler warning.