Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] Fix detection of preadv/pwritev support for OSX.

Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Clearly there is a more general question though, which is "should we
> buy into Apple's ABI management system or not", and I don't have a
> strong opinion on that.

Well, I definitely don't wish to clutter our core code with any
explicit dependencies on MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET. However,
if we can work around the issue by switching from AC_REPLACE_FUNCS
to AC_CHECK_DECLS, maybe we should just do that and quit arguing
about it. It seems like there's not a lot of enthusiasm for my idea
about installing a run-time probe, so I won't push for that.

> One thing I do know is that
> pthread_barrier_XXX changed from option to required in a recentish
> POSIX update so I expect the question to come up again eventually.

Yeah, we can expect that the issue will arise again, which is why
I was so unhappy with the rather-invasive patches we started with.

regards, tom lane