Limit usage of tcop/dest.h

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Limit usage of tcop/dest.h
Date: 2005-11-02 13:50:07
Message-ID: 20051102135007.GC26524@surnet.cl
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Hi,

I just found out that tcop/dest.h is included in executor/spi.h, and it
contains many things that aren't needed for compiling SPI programs/
libraries. By way of example I compiled the whole of contrib with the
attached patch and it works fine. Notice that the only thing I'm doing
is taking the forward declaration of Portal into a separate file,
portalforw.h -- that's the only definition that's really needed by SPI
programs. (It also allows PL/php to compile without having to patch PHP
nor PostgreSQL sources).

Note that since tcop/dest.h now includes portalforw.h, anybody who
currently needs the Portal definition is still getting it. The only
thing I'm doing is un-export the rest of tcop/dest.h from
executor/spi.h.

So instead of changing the names of the CommandDest enum, I'm hiding it
from external view.

Note that executor/spi.h does not follow the convention that #includes
should be alphabetically ordered. I did not change that in this patch
in order to show that this change is really minimal.

Does anybody object to committing this patch to current CVS HEAD?
(Comments about a better position/name for the new file are welcome.)

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/DXLWNGRJD34J
"The only difference is that Saddam would kill you on private, where the
Americans will kill you in public" (Mohammad Saleh, 39, a building contractor)

Attachment Content-Type Size
portalforw.h text/x-chdr 354 bytes

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