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To get CRC functionality in a client program, you now need to link with libpgcommon instead of libpgport. The CRC code has nothing to do with portability, so libpgcommon is a better home. (libpgcommon didn't exist when pg_crc.c was originally moved to src/port.) Remove the possibility to get CRC functionality by just #including pg_crc_tables.h. I'm not aware of any extensions that actually did that and couldn't simply link with libpgcommon. This also moves the pg_crc.h header file from src/include/utils to src/include/common, which will require changes to any external programs that currently does #include "utils/pg_crc.h". That seems acceptable, as include/common is clearly the right home for it now, and the change needed to any such programs is trivial.
The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree. This does not preclude their
usefulness.
User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.
When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target. You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.
Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types. To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command. In a fresh database,
you can simply do
CREATE EXTENSION module_name;
See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.