On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 04:31:32PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 3:36 PM Chapman Flack <c...@anastigmatix.net> wrote: > > Peter may have advocated for that kind of across-the-board adoption; > > my leaning is more to add an API that /can/ be adopted, initially with > > separately-linked extensions as the audience. Nothing would stop it being > > used in core as well, but no reason to change any site where it did not > > offer an advantage. > > > > I generally tend to be an incrementalist. > > Sure, me too, but the point for me is that there doesn't seem to be a > shred of a reason to go this way at all. We've turned a discussion > about adding PGDLLIMPORT, which ought to be totally uncontroversial, > into some kind of a discussion about adding an API layer that no one > wants to prevent a hypothetical failure mode not in evidence.
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