Re: libpq's pollution of application namespace

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: libpq's pollution of application namespace
Date: 2006-06-14 22:23:36
Message-ID: 200606142223.k5EMNaq06230@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Thread added to TODO:
> > o Properly mark all libpq-exported functions with "PQ"
>
> Is that still relevant? I thought we'd done as much as we intended
> to do in that specific direction. What would make sense to work on

Oh, OK.

> is making the build step that strips not-officially-exported symbols
> work on more platforms.

Uh, well, I had some patches in the patch queue to go in that direction,
but I thought the conclusion in that thread was that it wasn't worth it.

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