Re: pgsql-server/src/interfaces/libpq Makefile

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql-server/src/interfaces/libpq Makefile
Date: 2003-04-22 03:39:18
Message-ID: 26881.1050982758@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.

I don't believe any of our standard clients care, and in any case libpq
is not the place to put it if they do.

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

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

Even if it's correct (which I doubt) it's inside #ifdef
HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS and therefore irrelevant to Windows.

regards, tom lane

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