On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Kouhei Kaigai <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Kouhei Kaigai <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> wrote:
>> > The attached main patch (custom-scan-on-readfuncs.v3.patch) once
>> > removes TextOutCustomScan, thus all the serialized tokens become
>> > known to the core backend, and add _readCustomScan() at readfuncs.c.
>> > It deserializes CustomScan nodes from cstring tokens, especially,
>> > reloads the pointer of CustomScanMethods tables using a pair of
>> > library name and symbol name.
>> > Thus, it also requires custom scan providers to keep the methods
>> > table visible from external objects.
>>
>> Committed with some kibitzing.
>>
> Thanks,
>
> How do we deal with TextOutCustomScan in the v9.5 tree?
> I think we ought to remove this callback also prior to v9.5 release.
I'll do that if there's a clear consensus in favor. I wasn't sure it
really made sense so close to release.
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