Re: Plan for straightening out the include-file mess

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Alex Pilosov <alex(at)acecape(dot)com> writes:
> > when I include files needed for SPI, it drags also a lot of other
> > garbage in, which conflicts with other things (namely, trying to get a
> > file to simultaneously include SPI and perl headers is impossible).
> > I realise it might be a lot of pain to clean up, but, you may consider
> > having a separate top-level include for SPI, which would not define (by
> > default) things like DEBUG, USE_LOCALE, union semun, etc.
>
> Unless you want to write SPI code that never calls elog(), it's gonna be
> tough to avoid the conflict on DEBUG. I suppose sooner or later we'll
> have to rename the elog severity symbols ... but it's not a change that
> I'm looking forward to making.
Yes, how about ELOG_DEBUG, etc? Global search and replace should get it
correctly, shouldn't be TOO painful.

It would indeed break other people's internally-written modules, I don't
know a good solution. Maybe do it like perl, have a #define ELOG_POLLUTE
which would pull in defined by their old names?

> In any case there's too much time pressure to consider wide-ranging code
> changes for 7.1. Right now I don't want to do more than rearrange the
> contents of a small number of include files.
Oh no, I'd plan SPI cleanup for 7.2 timeframe, if possible.

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