Re: pgsql-server/src/interfaces/libpq Makefile - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Tom Lane wrote:
> momjian@postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian - CVS) writes:
> > Modified files:
> >     src/interfaces/libpq: Makefile
>
> > Log message:
> >     Add dirmod to libpq Makefile.
>
> Why?  libpq doesn't use rename, and I don't think it should be using

Also, keep in mind that it will effect other clients who do use
rename/unlink.  The question is whether they assume Unix semantics on
those commands.  I don't know the answer, but I assumed they did.

> unlink (someone *please* tell me that that unlink in getaddrinfo_unix
> is a brain-dead error...)

Not sure --- that's why I added it.

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