On 2019-10-20 10:26, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2019-10-18 15:00, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, the comment that Peter complained about is mine. I believe the
>> desire to avoid depending on "sed" at build time was focused on our
>> old support for building libpq with Borland C (and not much else).
>> Since this makefile infrastructure is now only used for MinGW, I agree
>> we ought to be able to quit shipping those files in tarballs.
>
> Yeah, it all makes sense now. I have committed my patch now.
Very related, I believe the file libpq-dist.rc is also obsolete; see
attached patch.
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