Re: Should contrib modules install .h files?

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Should contrib modules install .h files?
Date: 2018-08-02 16:56:22
Message-ID: 20180802165622.hqkolhrz7bkdndbs@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2018-08-02 17:53:17 +0100, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> >>>>> "Andres" == Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
>
> >> Also, "near future" means "before Monday". I don't want to ship
> >> beta3 with this in place if we end up reverting later, because it'd
> >> mean thrashing packagers' file manifests, which they won't
> >> appreciate. It might be best to revert in v11 for now, and then we
> >> can put it back after beta3 if there's agreement that the questions
> >> are satisfactorily resolved.
>
> Andres> +1
>
> On the other hand, _I'm_ getting pressure from at least one packager to
> nail down a final release of pllua-ng so they can build it along with
> beta3 (in place of the old broken pllua), which obviously I can't do if
> I keep having to fiddle with workarounds for hstore.h.

I just don't have a lot of sympathy for that, given the
months-after-freeze-window timing. It's not like *any* of this just
started to be problematic in v11.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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