Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:40:15 -0500
From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>,
	John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>,
	Zhang Mingli <zmlpostgres@gmail.com>,
	PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG?] macOS (Intel) build =?utf-8?Q?w?=
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 09:58:58AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> writes:
>> Why should this be backpatched at all?
> 
> To silence those warnings.  If you're using a Mac for development,
> they're pretty annoying.  And we have generally had a policy of
> trying to silence warnings in still-interesting branches.

Right, I was under the impression that was project policy, or at least
allowed per project policy.

-- 
nathan