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    Provide feature-test macros for libpq features added in v14. · 6991e774
    Tom Lane authored
    We had a request to provide a way to test at compile time for the
    availability of the new pipeline features.  More generally, it
    seems like a good idea to provide a way to test via #ifdef for
    all new libpq API features.  People have been using the version
    from pg_config.h for that; but that's more likely to represent the
    server version than the libpq version, in the increasingly-common
    scenario where they're different.  It's safer if libpq-fe.h itself
    is the source of truth about what features it offers.
    
    Hence, establish a policy that starting in v14 we'll add a suitable
    feature-is-present macro to libpq-fe.h when we add new API there.
    (There doesn't seem to be much point in applying this policy
    retroactively, but it's not too late for v14.)
    
    Tom Lane and Alvaro Herrera, per suggestion from Boris Kolpackov.
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/boris.20210617102439@codesynthesis.com
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