From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Replace __builtin_types_compatible_p with _Generic
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:00:54 +0200
Message-ID: <aad97ee4-6f78-4436-91d6-aa3fa0a65d97@eisentraut.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1wjYgi-0007jz-24@gemulon.postgresql.org>
References: <E1wjYgi-0007jz-24@gemulon.postgresql.org>
On 14.07.26 10:40, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Replace __builtin_types_compatible_p with _Generic
> Note that even though we have required C11 since f5e0186f865, we have
> not made use of _Generic until now (except in an MSVC-specific case in
> commit 59c2f03d1ec). This now raises the effective compiler
> requirement on the trailing edge slightly from GCC 4.8 to GCC 4.9.
> This in turn means that we effectively drop support for RHEL 7.
FYI, it is expected that some trailing-edge buildfarm members will fail
to build now. I'm in contact with the owners to decommission those.
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