Re: Development of ABI Compliance Checker for official PostgreSQL Repo

Looking forward to your contributions Mankirat and Welcome to the community!

Regards,
Akshat Jaimini

On Fri, 16 May, 2025, 12:12 pm Mankirat Singh, <mankiratsingh1315(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hello Postgres Community,
>
> I am Mankirat - 3rd year Computer Engineering undergrad. I am excited to
> share that I will be developing an ABI compliance checker and reporting
> system this summers as my GSoC 2025 project under the mentorship of David
> Wheeler <https://justatheory.com/> and Pavlo Golub
> <https://pashagolub.github.io/blog/>.
>
> This project will help identify and prevent unintentional ABI changes in
> future minor Postgres releases. This follows on the heels of the addition
> of ABI and API guidance
> <https://justatheory.com/2024/06/abi-api-guidance/> in Postgres 18, as
> well as the ABI-breaking Postgres 17.1 release
> <https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/explaining-abi-breakage-postgresql-171>
> .
>
> I had wrote two blogs for the same discussing about importance of this
> project and how I plan to work on this at blog.mankiratsingh.com
> I’d greatly appreciate any feedback or suggestions.
>
> Best,
> Mankirat Singh
>