Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > On 2017-06-28 13:31:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> While looking this over again, I got worried about the fact that pg_ctl >> is #including "miscadmin.h". That's a pretty low-level backend header >> and it wouldn't be surprising at all if somebody tried to put stuff in >> it that wouldn't compile frontend-side. I think we should take the >> opportunity, as long as we're touching this stuff, to split the #defines >> that describe the contents of postmaster.pid into a separate header file. >> Maybe "utils/pidfile.h" ?
> Yes, that sounds like a valid concern, and solution. So when I removed the miscadmin.h include, I found out that pg_ctl is also relying on PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR from that file. There are at least three things we could do here: 1. Give this up as not worth this much trouble. 2. Move PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR into pg_config.h to go along with the other version-related macros. 3. Give PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR its very own new header file. Any preferences? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers