Re: LWLockAcquire and LockBuffer mode argument

On 2020-Aug-26, Robert Haas wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 7:47 AM Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
> <ilmari@ilmari.org> wrote:
> > Would it be possible to make the compat versions only available when
> > building extensions, but not to core code?
> 
> I think that would be good if we can do it. We could even have it
> inside #ifdef LWLOCK_API_COMPAT, and extension authors who want the
> compatibility interface can define that.

We had ENABLE_LIST_COMPAT available for 16 years; see commits
d0b4399d81f3, 72b6ad631338, 1cff1b95ab6d.  We could do the same here.

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