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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnd=FCz?= <devrim@gunduz.org> writes:
> ...and it helps us to find the "main" process a bit easily.

Hmm, that's a nontrivial point perhaps.  It's certain that this
will break some other people's start scripts too.  On the whole,
is it really that hard to add the symlink to the meson build?

			regards, tom lane