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From Tom Lane
Subject src/port/gethostname.c sure looks like dead code
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Msg-id 9841.1422041559@sss.pgh.pa.us
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AFAICS there are no provisions to ever build this file, on any platform,
and have not been since 8.0.

If we did build it, it would likely fail on a large subset of platforms,
because it refers to a constant SYS_NMLN that isn't too portable.

I propose we just remove it.
        regards, tom lane

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