Re: Why does pg_standby require libpq.so.5?

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Fujii Masao wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Magnus Hagander<magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>>> Is there any reason not to remove the include directory in PG_CPPFLAGS
>>> as well? Seems it is equally unused...
>> No. I agree to remove PG_CPPFLAGS.
> 
> The second question is, is it worth doing this so extremely late in the
> 8.4 development? After mentioning it quickly in an offlist discussion
> with Heikki, I think our conclusion was that we should wait with this
> until the tree opens for 8.5. It's not a very likely scenario that
> anybody actually has pg_standby on a machine that doesn't have libpq on
> it - since it needs to have a PostgreSQL server on it to make any sense....

Right, let's put this on the first 8.5 commitfest page. It's not a
regression and it's harmless in practice.

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