Hi, In a recent commit [1] I added a static inline which castoroides dislikes: cc -D_STDC_C99= -Xa -g -m64 -xarch=native -xdepend -xO4 -xprefetch=auto,explicit pg_waldump.o compat.o xlogreader.o rmgrdesc.o brindesc.o clogdesc.o committsdesc.o dbasedesc.o genericdesc.o gindesc.o gistdesc.o hashdesc.o heapdesc.o logicalmsgdesc.o mxactdesc.o nbtdesc.o relmapdesc.o replorigindesc.o seqdesc.o smgrdesc.o spgdesc.o standbydesc.o tblspcdesc.o xactdesc.o xlogdesc.o -L../../../src/port -L../../../src/common -Wl,-R'/export/home/dpage/pgbuildfarm/castoroides/HEAD/inst/lib' -lpgcommon -lpgport -lpam -lgss -lz -lnsl -lrt -lsocket -lm -o pg_waldump Undefined first referenced symbol in file slot_getsomeattrs rmgrdesc.o
So it's the "old" issue of static inlines referencing functions that aren't present, which newer compilers don't have. It's obviously trivial to fix this case with by adding an #ifndef FRONTEND. But as castoroides appears to be the only animal showing the problem - after subtracting the animals dead due to the C99 requirement - I wonder if we shouldn't just require "proper" static inline support. castoroides runs a 13yo OS, and newer compilers that do not have the problem are readily available. I think it's very likely that we'll add more and more static inlines, and having to either experimentally check via the buildfarm, or just add #ifndef FRONTEND everywhere is pretty annoying. Greetings, Andres Freund [1] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=88ebd62fcc2ea7c55c0858f6dd4800d51383529f [2] https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=castoroides&dt=2018-08-24%2012%3A03%3A05
