Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> One advantage of this is that you can do "cvs diff > foo.patch" and
> get a patch file without a lot of garbage.
Maybe you would be happier if you build outside the source tree. Do
cd ..
mkdir pgbuild
cd pgbuild
../pgsql/configure --prefix.......
make
make install
Then to make a diff, go back
cd ../pgsql
cvs diff
and you won't have any built files in your way.