Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> writes: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:55 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote: >> Should we be worried about breaking the API of tuplesort_get* functions? >> They might be used by extensions. I think that's OK, but wanted to bring it >> up. This would be only for master, of course, and any breakage would be >> straightforward to fix.
> I don't think so. I'm not aware of any third party extensions that > call tuplesort.c routines, despite having looked for them. I noticed > that pg_repack doesn't. For any that do, they'll break in a > predictable, obvious way. Adding or subtracting function arguments is something we do all the time. As long as it's not proposed for back-patch, I don't see a problem. 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