Hi,
On 2018-03-20 17:04:22 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 3/20/18 02:18, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I think it'd be worth identifying exactly which platforms have
> > sizeof(bool) different from 1. Are any of them things that anyone
> > cares about going forward? The point of this patch is to ease
> > future development of extensions, but it's unlikely any extension
> > authors care about portability onto, say, macOS 10.4 (prairiedog).
>
> I'm not sure I follow. Say we commit configure tests and discover that
> platforms A, B, and C are affected. What would we do with that
> information? I don't think we are saying we'd just break A, B, and C.
If those are only older platforms we could just not use stdbool for
those. The likelihood of getting into conflicts with $library stdbool
uses is lower...
Greetings,
Andres Freund