Re: Cleaning up historical portability baggage

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> Redefining functions, be it by linking in something or by redefining function
> names via macros, is a mess. There's places where we then have to undefine
> some of these things to be able to include external headers etc. Some
> functions are only replaced in backends, others in frontend too. It makes it
> hard to know what exactly the assumed set of platform primitives is. Etc.

In the cases at hand, we aren't doing that, are we?  The replacement
function is only used on platforms that lack the relevant POSIX function,
so it's hard to argue that we're replacing anything.

            regards, tom lane