Re: Large C files

Excerpts from David Fetter's message of lun oct 17 03:00:19 -0300 2011:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 07:36:32PM +0100, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> > This evening, David Fetter described a problem to me that he was
> > having building the Twitter FDW. It transpired that it was down to its
> > dependence on an #include that was recently judged to be
> > redundant.This seems like another reason to avoid using pgrminclude -
> > even if we can be certain that the #includes are redundant within
> > Postgres, we cannot be sure that they are redundant in third party
> > code.
> 
> Perhaps something that tested some third-party code
> automatically...say, doesn't the new buildfarm stuff allow running
> some arbitrary code?

I think you could run your own buildfarm member and add whatever "steps"
you wanted (we have one building JDBC).  I'm not sure that we want that
though -- it'd start polluting the greenness of our buildfarm with
failures from code outside of our control.

I mean, if the third party code fails to compile, surely it's the third
party devs that care.

I fail to see why this is such a big deal.

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