Re: Preliminary patch for FRONTEND

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> As many know, the FRONTEND usage of /src/port is very fragile.  It
> requires every binary that uses certain libpgport object files to create
> its own version, which is very fragile, and could easily break if a
> function call is added in a subrelease, especially on certain ports.
>
> The following patch addresses this issue by making libpgport usable
> unchanged by client applications, and makes a special server version for
> the backend.   This is much less fragile than trying to make sure you
> hit every single binary that uses libpgport.
>
> I originally tried abstracting out the #ifdef FRONTEND defines in pgport
> but found that that wasn't easily done so making separate libraries was
> cleaner.

Here is an updated version of the patch:

    ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/mypatches

I made the suggested modifications and added more comments.

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