Re: Large C files

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jan Urbański <wulczer(at)wulczer(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Large C files
Date: 2011-10-17 06:00:19
Message-ID: 20111017060019.GD15692@fetter.org
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 07:36:32PM +0100, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> This evening, David Fetter described a problem to me that he was
> having building the Twitter FDW. It transpired that it was down to its
> dependence on an #include that was recently judged to be
> redundant.This seems like another reason to avoid using pgrminclude -
> even if we can be certain that the #includes are redundant within
> Postgres, we cannot be sure that they are redundant in third party
> code.

Perhaps something that tested some third-party code
automatically...say, doesn't the new buildfarm stuff allow running
some arbitrary code?

Cheers,
David.
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