Hello Hackers, I have been working on this project with David since last month. I've written some blogs about the progress, the most recent one is here [1] Here's the draft pull request for anyone interested in reviewing the code: [2]
On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 at 17:57, Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@kurilemu.de> wrote: > Were you able to make any progress on this? For now, my goal was to make it work without handling false positives. I plan to address those later, but I want to understand them now so I can move faster when the time comes. On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 at 21:03, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > This is beneficial for extensions because on ELF platforms, all exported > platforms in shared libraries can be intercepted by the main executable, > requiring all function calls between exported functions within an extension to > go through the GOT, slowing things down noticeably. > > > > Anyway, it doesn't look to me like adding -fvisibility=hidden to CFLAGS is a > > viable solution, though maybe it is possible to get the build to play nice. > > It'd be nice if we could get there, but it'd require annotating *all* > intentionally exported functions in the backend with PGDLLIMPORT (rather than > just doing that for variables). Then we could make some symbols > *intentionally* not exported, which can improve the code generation (allowing > more compiler and linker optimizations). Thanks for the explanation, Andres! Had the same questions as David asked. Regards, Mankirat [1] - https://blog.mankiratsingh.com/posts/worklog-3to11-abi-complicance-reporting/ [2] - https://github.com/PGBuildFarm/client-code/pull/38
