On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote: > No strong opinion on JSONAPI_USE_PQEXPBUFFER. As far as I can tell, we > pretty much force you to link libpq if you want to have a PQExpBuffer, > which tells me that a frontend jsonapi.c user would already be forced to > link libpq.
Only the _shlib variant uses JSONAPI_USE_PQEXPBUFFER; the "main" frontend version doesn't. (pg_combinebackup is an example of a frontend JSON client that doesn't link against libpq, I think.) > > For now, I'll proceed as if a backport to 18 is appropriate for these. > > Yeah, I'd prefer that. Committed and backpatched. Thanks for the reviews, thanks everybody for the thread, and thank you Hou-san for the patch! --Jacob
