Re: POLA violation with \c service=

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: POLA violation with \c service=
Date: 2015-01-10 14:49:52
Message-ID: 54B13C10.1030601@dunslane.net
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On 01/10/2015 09:32 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-01-10 09:16:07 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> +static const char uri_designator[] = "postgresql://";
>> +static const char short_uri_designator[] = "postgres://";
>>
>> These declarations in common.h would cause a separate instance of these
>> pieces of storage to occur in every object file where the .h file had been
>> #included. In general, you should not expect to see any static declarations
>> in .h files.
> Save static inline functions, that is.
>

Yeah, but not normally data items. (I did say "in general"). As a
general rule for novice C programmers I think my rule of thumb is
reasonable.

cheers

andrew

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