Re: Oops - BF:Mastodon just died

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>
>>>> Agreed, but I suggest waiting till 8.4 is branched unless you are really
>>>> sure about this addition. We freeze for 8.3.0 in less than 24 hours.
>>>>
>
>
>> I am pretty damn sure it's OK. It's pretty low risk (change an unlink
>> call to a rename call) and even if it's broken as my fist version was,
>> it doesn't appear to break the build. It's working on the buildfarm. I
>> want it in so if we have problems with 8.3 we don't have to go through
>> the handstands I had to to find out what was broken.
>>
>
> After looking at the patch, my only question is how all those junk files
> get cleaned up at "make clean".
>
>
>

The symbols files we are keeping as a result of the patch are renamed
into to the release or debug hierarchy (depending on what we're
building). Those entire trees are removed by src/tools/msvc/clean.bat.

cheers

andrew