Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 2014-02-04 02:10:47 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Meh. It might be that the DateStyle usage in postgres_fdw would >> accidentally fail to malfunction if it saw a bogus value of the variable. >> But it's hard to believe that this would be true of MainLWLockArray.
> There's not that much lwlock usage in contrib. It's just > pg_stat_statements and pg_buffercache. Neither has tests... So it very > well could be that breakage simply hasn't been observed. Hm, you're right --- I'd have thought there were more of those. Ugh. This problem was bad enough when I thought that it would only lead to link-time errors detectable in the buildfarm. If it can lead to errors only observable at runtime --- and maybe not obvious even then --- then I think we *have to* do something about it. By that I mean that we must get rid of the need to manually plaster PGDLLIMPORT on global variables. Anybody with a Windows build environment want to test the "#define extern" trick? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers