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-rw-r--r--src/include/utils/palloc.h7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/utils/palloc.h b/src/include/utils/palloc.h
index 61d03351d13..d99be84e2dc 100644
--- a/src/include/utils/palloc.h
+++ b/src/include/utils/palloc.h
@@ -75,8 +75,14 @@ extern void *repalloc_huge(void *pointer, Size size);
* MemoryContextSwitchTo can't be a macro in standard C compilers.
* But we can make it an inline function if the compiler supports it.
* See STATIC_IF_INLINE in c.h.
+ *
+ * Although this header file is nominally backend-only, certain frontend
+ * programs like pg_controldata include it via postgres.h. For some compilers
+ * it's necessary to hide the inline definition of MemoryContextSwitchTo in
+ * this scenario; hence the #ifndef FRONTEND.
*/
+#ifndef FRONTEND
#ifndef PG_USE_INLINE
extern MemoryContext MemoryContextSwitchTo(MemoryContext context);
#endif /* !PG_USE_INLINE */
@@ -90,6 +96,7 @@ MemoryContextSwitchTo(MemoryContext context)
return old;
}
#endif /* PG_USE_INLINE || MCXT_INCLUDE_DEFINITIONS */
+#endif /* FRONTEND */
/*
* These are like standard strdup() except the copied string is