Re: Compiling libpq with VC6

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>
>>Andreas Pflug wrote:
>>
>>>Not really. The backend will still use the reliable pg_ functions.
>>>Frontends continue to use the libc functions, which are totally
>>>sufficient in non-concurrent access situations.
>
>
>>I would like to keep full Unix semantics for these functions even in
>>libpq, if possible.

> libpq doesn't use either rename or unlink AFAIK.  However, if we make
> the patch be something involving #ifdef FRONTEND, then it will affect
> other code that might want to use those.
>
> One thing that hasn't been real clear to me is why this only affects
> fe-lobj.c, when we have many other files that include <io.h> after
> including postgres.h.

Quite simple: mingw includes do *not* conflict.
Only a minority of tools is object to VC6 compilation, ultimately only
libpq is needed.

Regards,
Andreas