Re: bool: symbol name collision

From: Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Bryan Henderson <bryanh(at)giraffe-data(dot)com>, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: bool: symbol name collision
Date: 2010-05-11 19:09:43
Message-ID: AANLkTilDSH6gNR2nt3_XeChvZhZYPX5Zg1rfqhaokVVH@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:42, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I guess the question that comes to mind for me is how many other
> things fall into this category.  We define a lot of symbols like int4
> and int32 that other people could also have defined, and I don't
> really want to s/^/pg/ all of them.  If it's really only a question of
> renaming bool I could see doing it.

You mean i'd get the pleasure of 'fixing' all my 3rd party C modules?
Not that that is a huge problem, we have broken calling conventions in
most releases...

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