On Sep 23, 2014 2:51 AM, "Tom Lane" <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > On 2014-09-20 10:03:43 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >> I thought the Borland stuff was there only so we could build client > >> libraries for use with things like Delphi. > > > FWIW I got offlist reports of two not subscribed people that they simply > > use the normal libpq dll from delphi. Copying it from pgadmin or the pg > > installer. > > Whether or not it's really needed to preserve the ability to build libpq > with borland, I'm just about certain that it's never worked to build the > backend with borland (thus explaining the lack of buildfarm members). > So it should be safe enough to strip support appearing in backend-only > header files. >
The backend has never built with borland. I'm pretty sure I suggested we drop borland support completely a few years ago but people felt it wasnt costing enough to warrant a drop at the time. Things may have changed now, but even without that we can definitely drop the backend side of things. /Magnus
