Re: Proposed cleanup of generated header files

> It's bothered me for some time that backend files need to be compiled
> with -I src/backend as well as -I src/include.  AFAICT this is just
> because the two header files that are generated on-the-fly (parse.h
> and fmgroids.h, formerly known as fmgr.h) are included from src/backend
> rather than being inserted into the include tree, which it seems to me
> is where they should be.  Any objections if I rearrange the makefiles
> so that these files get placed under include/ when they are built,
> and then -I src/backend goes away?
> 
> (In case anyone is wondering, there are no platform-dependencies in
> either file.  We could distribute them as part of the distribution
> tarball --- in fact we already do so for parse.h.  So I don't see
> that installing them into src/include would create any problems for
> multiplatform builds.)

Agreed.

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