On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 3:36 PM Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net> wrote:
> Peter may have advocated for that kind of across-the-board adoption;
> my leaning is more to add an API that /can/ be adopted, initially with
> separately-linked extensions as the audience. Nothing would stop it being
> used in core as well, but no reason to change any site where it did not
> offer an advantage.
>
> I generally tend to be an incrementalist.
Sure, me too, but the point for me is that there doesn't seem to be a
shred of a reason to go this way at all. We've turned a discussion
about adding PGDLLIMPORT, which ought to be totally uncontroversial,
into some kind of a discussion about adding an API layer that no one
wants to prevent a hypothetical failure mode not in evidence.
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Robert Haas
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