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

Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> 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.
>
> +1.  This is barely even a bug; it's not worth taking any risk for at
> this point.  (It is already too late for a patch applied now to be
> tested by the whole buildfarm before we wrap 8.4.0 --- some machines
> are on a once-a-day cycle.)

Yeah, that was our reasoning as well.

Attached is a patch that takes them both away, so I have something to
put on the wiki :-)


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Index: Makefile
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -c -r1.4 Makefile
*** Makefile    10 Nov 2007 23:59:51 -0000    1.4
--- Makefile    25 Jun 2009 13:32:08 -0000
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*** 3,11 ****
  PROGRAM = pg_standby
  OBJS    = pg_standby.o

- PG_CPPFLAGS = -I$(libpq_srcdir)
- PG_LIBS = $(libpq_pgport)
-
  ifdef USE_PGXS
  PG_CONFIG = pg_config
  PGXS := $(shell $(PG_CONFIG) --pgxs)
--- 3,8 ----