Re: Fix pg_dump dependency on postgres.h

Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> >>> Huh, I think the point is to be able to build 8.3 at all on certain
> >>> Solaris releases. I think it qualifies as a portability fix.
> >> (a) it wasn't "to build at all", it was to allow "inline" to be enabled
> >> on Sun Studio's compiler, which apparently is too dumb to not generate
> >> copies of an unreferenced inline function.
> >>
> >> (b) portability fix or not, this ain't going into 8.3. It's *far* too
> >> invasive for this late stage of the cycle.
> >
> > Yea, that was my analysis too.
> >
>
> Yes, I agree with Bruce and Tom. It is more invasive then I expected.
> And specially in context when pg_resetxlog needs to be also fixed and
> this fix seems more complicated then pg_dump fix :(.

The good news is that we will have it ready for 8.4.

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