Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm actually fairly uncomfortable with the notion that something buried
>> deep within the src/backend tree is going to reach over and cause libpq
>> to get built. Maybe the real answer is that you put walreceiver in the
>> wrong place, and it ought to be under src/bin/.
> That feels even more wrong to me. Walreceiver is a postmaster
> subprocess, tightly integrated with the rest of the backend.
[ shrug... ] pg_dump, to take one example, is considerably more
"tightly integrated" with the backend than walreceiver is.
regards, tom lane