Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT
Date: 2014-02-02 01:28:41
Message-ID: 25333.1391304521@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2014-02-01 20:03:58 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think we should give serious consideration to desupporting this
>> combination so that we can get rid of the plague of PGDLLIMPORT
>> marks. Obviously this would depend on confirming that there are
>> no more-interesting Windows build methods that require it --- but
>> if there are any, I'd sure demand that there be an active buildfarm
>> instance to keep us from breaking the case again in future.

> Weren't there more recent cases of needing to add PGDLLIMPORTs?

Yeah, which makes the plot even thicker. If references to those
variables failed, how did we not notice postgres_fdw's issue?

I don't claim to know exactly what's going on, but I think we need
to find out.

regards, tom lane

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