Re: AW: PG19beta1: GCC 16.1.1 warning: ‘actual_arg_types’ may be used uninitialized in clauses.c

From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Hans Buschmann <buschmann(at)nidsa(dot)net>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: AW: PG19beta1: GCC 16.1.1 warning: ‘actual_arg_types’ may be used uninitialized in clauses.c
Date: 2026-06-18 16:08:12
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On 2026-Jun-18, Nathan Bossart wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 11:33:23AM +0000, Hans Buschmann wrote:
> > I also can confirm that this silences the compiler warning of GCC 16.1.1.
>
> Thanks! I'm debating whether to back-patch this to unsupported branches.
> IIUC it qualifies. I'm getting ready to bump up the minimum supported
> version of pg_dump and friends to v10, so maybe I should stop there. But
> also, stopping at v14 might be good enough for something small like this.
> Any opinions?

I'd stop at 14 and call it a day. It doesn't prevent building, which is
IIRC the criteria we use for the older branches.

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