While working on the VC++ build, I initially (accidentally) built postgres.exe witohut exporting all symbols (because VC++ doesn't have a builtin functionality to do export-all). When enabling it to export all, I noticed the binary increased more than 30% in size, and the linker time increased around 500%. (The reason the function is not in vc++ is that you're really not supposed to do full-exports from EXEs and DLLs...)
Which brings me to the question - would it be reasonable to create a .DEF file listing which symbols are exported from the postgres binary to addon modules? Sort of the same way libpq does it, though of course with a much more extensive list of functions. I have a feeling this might be both more work than wanted, and something contrary to some piece of design, but I'm throwing the question out to get some expert comments on it. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
