Re: remove ancient pre-dlopen dynloader code

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2018-08-16 09:22:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The lazy man's way to get rid of it would be to put something like
>> "int bogus = 0;" in the empty dynloader.c files. Better would be
>> to not have the empty .c files at all, but I'm not sure how much
>> we'd have to contort the Makefiles to support that.

> If I had my druthers, we'd just remove all that configure magic for
> selecting these files and just use ifdefs. Personally I find it
> occasionally that they're linked into place, rather than built under
> their original name.

Even if we all agreed that was an improvement (which I'm not sure of),
it wouldn't fix this problem would it? On affected platforms, the
file would still be empty after preprocessing.

regards, tom lane