Re: libpq's pollution of application namespace

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> AIUI, we *do* limit the symbols for Windows (for libpq anyway, see
> exports.txt file) we just don't for UNIX since it can't be done
> portably. I posted a patch to -patches which does it for Linux and in
> principle any platform using GCC but there's no consensus on whether we
> should do it if it can't be done for everyone in a simple way.

Now I understand the problem. We can not find a portable way to do it.
But we can support GCC now, then add support for other compilers.
As time goes on, we can finally solve it.

Regards, William Zhang