Re: [HACKERS] datetime.h defines like PM conflict with externallibraries

Andres Freund wrote:

> Medium term, it
> seems to me, we should start actually move a lot of the adt code into a
> library that can be included (or possibly just compiled?) both by
> frontend and backend code.  Which kinda seems to imply we'd need
> compatible elog support for frontend code, which I'd wished for many
> times.

I remember looking into moving this code into src/common/ a couple of
years ago, but the API was not identical in ecpg than backend mostly
because of the use of a few GUC vars, so I didn't finish it.  In many
cases it seemed possible to resolve easily (just change hardcoded use of
a GUC in the function with a parameter), but I'm not sure it was the
case everywhere.

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