Re: libpq's pollution of application namespace

From: "William ZHANG" <uniware(at)zedware(dot)org>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: libpq's pollution of application namespace
Date: 2005-10-21 02:36:14
Message-ID: dj9k6o$csn$1@news.hub.org
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> AIUI, we *do* limit the symbols for Windows (for libpq anyway, see
> exports.txt file) we just don't for UNIX since it can't be done
> portably. I posted a patch to -patches which does it for Linux and in
> principle any platform using GCC but there's no consensus on whether we
> should do it if it can't be done for everyone in a simple way.

Now I understand the problem. We can not find a portable way to do it.
But we can support GCC now, then add support for other compilers.
As time goes on, we can finally solve it.

Regards, William Zhang

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