Re: Potential ABI breakage in upcoming minor releases - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Potential ABI breakage in upcoming minor releases
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In response to Re: Potential ABI breakage in upcoming minor releases  (Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>)
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On 14.11.24 15:35, Noah Misch wrote:
> The postgr.es/c/e54a42a standard would have us stop here.  But I'm open to
> treating the standard as mistaken and changing things.

That text explicitly calls out that adding struct members at the end of 
a struct is considered okay.  But thinking about it now, even adding 
fields to the end of a node struct that extensions allocate using 
makeNode() is an ABI break that is liable to cause all affected 
extensions to break in a crashing way.




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