Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2014-02-01 20:03:58 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think we should give serious consideration to desupporting this
>> combination so that we can get rid of the plague of PGDLLIMPORT
>> marks.  Obviously this would depend on confirming that there are
>> no more-interesting Windows build methods that require it --- but
>> if there are any, I'd sure demand that there be an active buildfarm
>> instance to keep us from breaking the case again in future.

> Weren't there more recent cases of needing to add PGDLLIMPORTs?

Yeah, which makes the plot even thicker.  If references to those
variables failed, how did we not notice postgres_fdw's issue?

I don't claim to know exactly what's going on, but I think we need
to find out.
        regards, tom lane