Re: Patch: update Bonjour support to the newer non-deprecated API

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > The source is here:
> > http://avahi.sourcearchive.com/documentation/0.6.25-1ubuntu1/avahi-compat-libdns__sd_2compat_8c-source.html
> 
> After reading that code, I am content to remain forcibly non compatible
> with it.  If we relied on this it would inject threading into the
> postmaster, which was precisely the thing that got the previous Avahi
> patch rejected last year :-(

Should we inject some sort of compile-time rejection of the
compatibility API?  Like, say

#ifdef AVAHI_SERVICE_COOKIE
#error The Avahi implementation is incompatible
#endif

inside some #ifdef BONJOUR block?

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