Re: Should we excise the remnants of borland cc support?

On Sep 23, 2014 2:51 AM, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 2014-09-20 10:03:43 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >> I thought the Borland stuff was there only so we could build client
> >> libraries for use with things like Delphi.
>
> > FWIW I got offlist reports of two not subscribed people that they simply
> > use the normal libpq dll from delphi. Copying it from pgadmin or the pg
> > installer.
>
> Whether or not it's really needed to preserve the ability to build libpq
> with borland, I'm just about certain that it's never worked to build the
> backend with borland (thus explaining the lack of buildfarm members).
> So it should be safe enough to strip support appearing in backend-only
> header files.
>

The backend has never built with borland.

I'm pretty sure I suggested we drop borland support completely a few years
ago but people felt it wasnt costing enough to warrant a drop at the time.
Things may have changed now, but even without that we can definitely drop
the backend side of things.

/Magnus