I just noticed that optimizer/cost.h is not #include'd by plancat.c,
which is not too cool because the former has the extern declaration
for the constraint_exclusion global variable while the latter has
the actual definition. I didn't run it down in the CVS history to
make sure, but I imagine what happened is that your unnecessary-includes
script diked it out because the file still compiled warning-free without
that header, ie, there is no warning for "int foo;" not preceded by
"extern int foo;". This isn't real good because it would allow a global
variable to get out of sync with its declaration. Is there a way to
prevent such problems in future?
regards, tom lane