On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 at 12:48, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > David Rowley <dgrowle...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 at 12:32, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> No, this completely fails to address the problem. The concern is > >> that the extension has been compiled under USE_ASSERT_CHECKING, > >> so it will try to call the function. If the function's not there > >> in core, kaboom. > > > hmm, you got me confused. Maybe you missed that the extension will be > > the one compiling the static inline TupleDescCompactAttr() function > > and will use the macro instead? > > No, I don't think I missed anything. Inline function or no, the > extension will contain a call to verify_compact_attribute(), > and that won't work if the core backend doesn't have that function.
I think I'd only thought in terms of getting the extension to build and failed to consider that the already built extension might be created in builds with and without USE_ASSERT_CHECKING. David