Re: Is "Window" really safe as a global typedef name?

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:36:30PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm looking at the window-functions patch and wondering just what
> kind of trouble we'll get into if we leave its new plan node type
> named just "Window".  I've already confirmed that this is a direct
> conflict against a typedef in <X11/X.h>, and I'd be not the least
> bit surprised if it's used in even-more-popular system headers on
> Windows or Darwin.  Now maybe you could always get away with not
> including such headers together with plannodes.h, but it sure looks
> like problems waiting to happen.
> 
> So I'm thinking we'd better rename it, but I'm not coming up with
> anything good; the best I can do after a long day is "EvalWindow",
> and that doesn't seem particularly inspired.  Any suggestions?

QueryWindow?  ResultSetWindow?

Cheers,
David.
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