Neil Conway wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > The attached patch should remove the warnings but I am not applying it
> > because a non-static/extern global variable should be fine in C code.
>
> What's the harm in applying it? Variables and functions not used outside
> the compilation unit in which they are defined _should_ be marked
> static; it's not required, but I think it's good style.
I didn't want to do it because I thought we would then have to do it in
a lot of places, but I see pg_ctl.c does it, so I applied the patch, and
fixed initdb.c to be 'static-clean' too.
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