Re: Cleaning up multiply-defined-symbol warnings on OS X

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Cleaning up multiply-defined-symbol warnings on OS X
Date: 2006-04-29 19:07:30
Message-ID: 25943.1146337650@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> Now that 95% of this patch [1] (currently in the hold queue) has been
> implemented, perhaps we should go the final 5% and version the symbols
> to fix the ambiguous symbol problem forever (on linux at least, though
> anywhere with the GCC toolchain will work).

I was thinking about that, but came away unconvinced it's worth doing
considering we are not a Linux-only system. Is there any advantage
in having symbol versioning on Linux when we'll still have the same
API-change constraints everywhere else?

I had actually forgotten about your earlier patch :-(

regards, tom lane

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