On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:44:23PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> > If we don't like imposing link time constraints, we could require
> > people to include:
>
> > #ifdef PG_MAGIC_BLOCK
> > PG_MAGIC_BLOCK;
> > #endif
>
> I was hoping to avoid forcing source-code changes, but something like
> that might be the best solution. Anyone think it's unreasonable?
Alternativly, you could make it optional for a release (print warning
that magic block wasn't found). Next release require it. It's a small
enough change that it wouldn't require huge amounts of effort on the
part of module writers.
Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.