Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] VC++ psql build broken

Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Andreas Pflug wrote:
> >
> >>Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>
> >>>How does your Win32 system rename prototype differ from what is in
> >>>port.h?
> >>
> >>What is the need of *any* special file handling functions for client tools?
> >
> >
> > We could avoid it but it does give us Unix semantics so it seemed good
> > to keep it if we could.
> >
>
> As you can see it creates much pain, without any use. The functions are
> for backend concurrent/shared access purposes only.

Are we sure of that always?  And we don't know what other applications
might be looking at those files.

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