On tis, 2010-05-11 at 14:42 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > I guess the question that comes to mind for me is how many other > things fall into this category. We define a lot of symbols like int4 > and int32 that other people could also have defined, and I don't > really want to s/^/pg/ all of them. If it's really only a question of > renaming bool I could see doing it.
Well, anything that you link into the backend is most likely either your own code or a library that has reasonable namespace standards. You can't expect to be able to link together *two* unclean namespaces under any circumstances. :-) But you could probably even work around that with linker scripts, for example. The issue at hand, however, is that bool is a reserved word in C++ and therefore cannot easily be complained away. I think you could work around that though, for example, by doing #define bool char before including a PostgreSQL server header. It would depend on what you want to do in the code, which is why an example would help. Then again, in 2 out of 2 cases I checked, sizeof(bool) is 1 in C++, so there is no actual issue. I know it doesn't have to be, but at least for some people it's working now. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
