Excerpts from Andrew Dunstan's message of mié mar 14 17:39:59 -0300 2012:
> pgpipe used to be used in pgstat.c, but that's no longer true in any
> live branch, so it's probably long dead. I'd be inclined to rip it out
> if possible rather than expand its use.
our pgpipe() function is interesting -- all the callers that use it
first verify that they aren't WIN32. If they are, they are using a
#define that makes it plain pipe(). And the function is only defined in
WIN32. It seems a reasonable idea to kill both pgpipe() and piperead().
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