Re: Should we excise the remnants of borland cc support? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Should we excise the remnants of borland cc support?
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Msg-id 1413.1411433461@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Should we excise the remnants of borland cc support?  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Should we excise the remnants of borland cc support?  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2014-09-20 10:03:43 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> I thought the Borland stuff was there only so we could build client
>> libraries for use with things like Delphi.

> FWIW I got offlist reports of two not subscribed people that they simply
> use the normal libpq dll from delphi. Copying it from pgadmin or the pg
> installer.

Whether or not it's really needed to preserve the ability to build libpq
with borland, I'm just about certain that it's never worked to build the
backend with borland (thus explaining the lack of buildfarm members).
So it should be safe enough to strip support appearing in backend-only
header files.
        regards, tom lane



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