| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> |
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] taking stdbool.h into use |
| Date: | 2018-03-20 21:04:22 |
| Message-ID: | 529941f4-e321-043c-d6d6-13045f7b953a@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 3/20/18 02:18, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think it'd be worth identifying exactly which platforms have
> sizeof(bool) different from 1. Are any of them things that anyone
> cares about going forward? The point of this patch is to ease
> future development of extensions, but it's unlikely any extension
> authors care about portability onto, say, macOS 10.4 (prairiedog).
I'm not sure I follow. Say we commit configure tests and discover that
platforms A, B, and C are affected. What would we do with that
information? I don't think we are saying we'd just break A, B, and C.
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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