Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2020-02-19 15:55:38 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Boy, I'd be pretty darn hesitant to go there, even with our new
>> expectation of C99 compilers. What we found out when we last experimented
>> with non-static inlines was that the semantics were not very portable nor
>> desirable. I've forgotten the details unfortunately.
> I think most of those problems were about putting extern inlines into
> headers however - not about putting an inline onto an extern within one
> translation unit only. Given that potential fallout should be within a
> single file, and can fairly easily be fixed with adding wrappers etc, I
> think it's a fairly low risk experiment to see what the buildfarm
> thinks.
The buildfarm would only tell you if it compiles, not whether the
performance results are what you hoped for.
regards, tom lane