Re: 8.4 TODO item: make src/port support libpq and ecpg directly

Added to TODO:

* Create three versions of libpgport to simplify client code
 http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-10/msg00154.php


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Tom Lane wrote:
> This business with having libpq and ecpg pull in src/port modules
> manually is getting unmaintainable.  I wonder whether we could persuade
> src/port to generate three versions of libpgport.a --- backend,
> frontend, and frontend-shlib-ready --- and then just -l the appropriate
> one in libpq and ecpg.  This'd waste a few cycles building modules that
> would never be used, but on the other hand we'd buy some of that back
> by not building the same object files three or four times.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
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