Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> I would be quite happy with that, but before we go down that path I'd
> like to know why the MSVC builds aren't failing now from this when the
> MinGW builds are.
Maybe the MSVC linker is willing to bind libpq's call to a safestat copy
extracted from libpgport.a in the surrounding program --- IOW, it works
only for calling programs that include libpgport, but all ours do.
regards, tom lane