diff --git a/src/backend/parser/Makefile b/src/backend/parser/Makefile
index 9cc8946fa1b..fdd8485cec5 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/Makefile
+++ b/src/backend/parser/Makefile
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ include $(top_builddir)/src/Makefile.global
 
 override CPPFLAGS := -I. -I$(srcdir) $(CPPFLAGS)
 
-OBJS= analyze.o gram.o scan.o keywords.o kwlookup.o parser.o \
+OBJS= analyze.o gram.o scan.o parser.o \
       parse_agg.o parse_clause.o parse_coerce.o parse_collate.o parse_cte.o \
       parse_expr.o parse_func.o parse_node.o parse_oper.o parse_param.o \
       parse_relation.o parse_target.o parse_type.o parse_utilcmd.o scansup.o
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ scan.c: FLEX_NO_BACKUP=yes
 
 
 # Force these dependencies to be known even without dependency info built:
-gram.o scan.o keywords.o parser.o: gram.h
+gram.o scan.o parser.o: gram.h
 
 
 # gram.c, gram.h, and scan.c are in the distribution tarball, so they
diff --git a/src/backend/parser/README b/src/backend/parser/README
index 08625e427d2..6d8f19b5ca0 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/README
+++ b/src/backend/parser/README
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ to the optimizer and then executor.
 parser.c	things start here
 scan.l		break query into tokens
 scansup.c	handle escapes in input strings
-kwlookup.c	turn keywords into specific tokens
-keywords.c	table of standard keywords (passed to kwlookup.c)
 gram.y		parse the tokens and produce a "raw" parse tree
 analyze.c	top level of parse analysis for optimizable queries
 parse_agg.c	handle aggregates, like SUM(col1),  AVG(col2), ...
@@ -28,3 +26,7 @@ parse_relation.c support routines for tables and column handling
 parse_target.c	handle the result list of the query
 parse_type.c	support routines for data type handling
 parse_utilcmd.c	parse analysis for utility commands (done at execution time)
+
+See also src/common/keywords.c, which contains the table of standard
+keywords and the keyword lookup function.  We separated that out because
+various frontend code wants to use it too.
diff --git a/src/backend/parser/keywords.c b/src/backend/parser/keywords.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 7a4f1286905..00000000000
--- a/src/backend/parser/keywords.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- *
- * keywords.c
- *	  lexical token lookup for key words in PostgreSQL
- *
- *
- * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2016, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
- * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
- *
- *
- * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  src/backend/parser/keywords.c
- *
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-#include "postgres.h"
-
-#include "parser/gramparse.h"
-
-#define PG_KEYWORD(a,b,c) {a,b,c},
-
-
-const ScanKeyword ScanKeywords[] = {
-#include "parser/kwlist.h"
-};
-
-const int	NumScanKeywords = lengthof(ScanKeywords);
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/misc.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/misc.c
index 4dcc5a63be7..faa8ef3c913 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/misc.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/misc.c
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@
 #include "catalog/pg_tablespace.h"
 #include "catalog/pg_type.h"
 #include "commands/dbcommands.h"
+#include "common/keywords.h"
 #include "funcapi.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "parser/scansup.h"
-#include "parser/keywords.h"
 #include "postmaster/syslogger.h"
 #include "rewrite/rewriteHandler.h"
 #include "storage/fd.h"
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c
index 490a0906e8e..2b47e95a687 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include "catalog/pg_type.h"
 #include "commands/defrem.h"
 #include "commands/tablespace.h"
+#include "common/keywords.h"
 #include "executor/spi.h"
 #include "funcapi.h"
 #include "mb/pg_wchar.h"
@@ -45,7 +46,6 @@
 #include "nodes/makefuncs.h"
 #include "nodes/nodeFuncs.h"
 #include "optimizer/tlist.h"
-#include "parser/keywords.h"
 #include "parser/parse_node.h"
 #include "parser/parse_agg.h"
 #include "parser/parse_func.h"
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/.gitignore b/src/bin/pg_dump/.gitignore
index c2c8677bd80..ae4cf3ce428 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_dump/.gitignore
+++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-/kwlookup.c
-
 /pg_dump
 /pg_dumpall
 /pg_restore
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/Makefile b/src/bin/pg_dump/Makefile
index 4162c8e5645..ddf940210ab 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_dump/Makefile
+++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/Makefile
@@ -22,21 +22,16 @@ OBJS=	pg_backup_archiver.o pg_backup_db.o pg_backup_custom.o \
 	pg_backup_null.o pg_backup_tar.o pg_backup_directory.o \
 	pg_backup_utils.o parallel.o compress_io.o dumputils.o $(WIN32RES)
 
-KEYWRDOBJS = keywords.o kwlookup.o
-
-kwlookup.c: % : $(top_srcdir)/src/backend/parser/%
-	rm -f $@ && $(LN_S) $< .
-
 all: pg_dump pg_restore pg_dumpall
 
-pg_dump: pg_dump.o common.o pg_dump_sort.o $(OBJS) $(KEYWRDOBJS) | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
-	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) pg_dump.o common.o pg_dump_sort.o $(KEYWRDOBJS) $(OBJS) $(libpq_pgport) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_EX) $(LIBS) -o $@$(X)
+pg_dump: pg_dump.o common.o pg_dump_sort.o $(OBJS) | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) pg_dump.o common.o pg_dump_sort.o $(OBJS) $(libpq_pgport) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_EX) $(LIBS) -o $@$(X)
 
-pg_restore: pg_restore.o $(OBJS) $(KEYWRDOBJS) | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
-	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) pg_restore.o $(KEYWRDOBJS) $(OBJS) $(libpq_pgport) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_EX) $(LIBS) -o $@$(X)
+pg_restore: pg_restore.o $(OBJS) | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) pg_restore.o $(OBJS) $(libpq_pgport) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_EX) $(LIBS) -o $@$(X)
 
-pg_dumpall: pg_dumpall.o dumputils.o $(KEYWRDOBJS) | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
-	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) pg_dumpall.o dumputils.o $(KEYWRDOBJS) $(WIN32RES) $(libpq_pgport) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_EX) $(LIBS) -o $@$(X)
+pg_dumpall: pg_dumpall.o dumputils.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) pg_dumpall.o dumputils.o $(WIN32RES) $(libpq_pgport) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_EX) $(LIBS) -o $@$(X)
 
 install: all installdirs
 	$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) pg_dump$(X) '$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)'/pg_dump$(X)
@@ -50,4 +45,4 @@ uninstall:
 	rm -f $(addprefix '$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)'/, pg_dump$(X) pg_restore$(X) pg_dumpall$(X))
 
 clean distclean maintainer-clean:
-	rm -f pg_dump$(X) pg_restore$(X) pg_dumpall$(X) $(OBJS) pg_dump.o common.o pg_dump_sort.o pg_restore.o pg_dumpall.o kwlookup.c $(KEYWRDOBJS)
+	rm -f pg_dump$(X) pg_restore$(X) pg_dumpall$(X) $(OBJS) pg_dump.o common.o pg_dump_sort.o pg_restore.o pg_dumpall.o
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/dumputils.c b/src/bin/pg_dump/dumputils.c
index 24ba5c8755c..a685d28d600 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_dump/dumputils.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/dumputils.c
@@ -18,13 +18,9 @@
 
 #include "dumputils.h"
 
-#include "parser/keywords.h"
+#include "common/keywords.h"
 
 
-/* Globals from keywords.c */
-extern const ScanKeyword FEScanKeywords[];
-extern const int NumFEScanKeywords;
-
 #define supports_grant_options(version) ((version) >= 70400)
 
 static bool parseAclItem(const char *item, const char *type,
@@ -116,8 +112,8 @@ fmtId(const char *rawid)
 		 * that's fine, since we already know we have all-lower-case.
 		 */
 		const ScanKeyword *keyword = ScanKeywordLookup(rawid,
-													   FEScanKeywords,
-													   NumFEScanKeywords);
+													   ScanKeywords,
+													   NumScanKeywords);
 
 		if (keyword != NULL && keyword->category != UNRESERVED_KEYWORD)
 			need_quotes = true;
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/keywords.c b/src/bin/pg_dump/keywords.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 6f3a2d7edaa..00000000000
--- a/src/bin/pg_dump/keywords.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- *
- * keywords.c
- *	  lexical token lookup for key words in PostgreSQL
- *
- *
- * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2016, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
- * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
- *
- *
- * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  src/bin/pg_dump/keywords.c
- *
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-#include "postgres_fe.h"
-
-#include "parser/keywords.h"
-
-/*
- * We don't need the token number, so leave it out to avoid requiring other
- * backend headers.
- */
-#define PG_KEYWORD(a,b,c) {a,0,c},
-
-const ScanKeyword FEScanKeywords[] = {
-#include "parser/kwlist.h"
-};
-
-const int	NumFEScanKeywords = lengthof(FEScanKeywords);
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/.gitignore b/src/bin/psql/.gitignore
index dc88807f52e..ce881f45ad2 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/.gitignore
+++ b/src/bin/psql/.gitignore
@@ -3,7 +3,5 @@
 /sql_help.h
 /sql_help.c
 /dumputils.c
-/keywords.c
-/kwlookup.c
 
 /psql
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/Makefile b/src/bin/psql/Makefile
index 5f4038e2cb6..75a9b395b4a 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/Makefile
+++ b/src/bin/psql/Makefile
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ override CPPFLAGS := -I. -I$(srcdir) -I$(libpq_srcdir) -I$(top_srcdir)/src/bin/p
 
 OBJS=	command.o common.o help.o input.o stringutils.o mainloop.o copy.o \
 	startup.o prompt.o variables.o large_obj.o print.o describe.o \
-	tab-complete.o mbprint.o dumputils.o keywords.o kwlookup.o \
+	tab-complete.o mbprint.o dumputils.o \
 	sql_help.o psqlscan.o psqlscanslash.o \
 	$(WIN32RES)
 
@@ -34,10 +34,7 @@ psql: $(OBJS) | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
 
 help.o: sql_help.h
 
-dumputils.c keywords.c: % : $(top_srcdir)/src/bin/pg_dump/%
-	rm -f $@ && $(LN_S) $< .
-
-kwlookup.c: % : $(top_srcdir)/src/backend/parser/%
+dumputils.c: % : $(top_srcdir)/src/bin/pg_dump/%
 	rm -f $@ && $(LN_S) $< .
 
 sql_help.c: sql_help.h ;
@@ -70,7 +67,7 @@ uninstall:
 	rm -f '$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/psql$(X)' '$(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/psqlrc.sample'
 
 clean distclean:
-	rm -f psql$(X) $(OBJS) dumputils.c keywords.c kwlookup.c lex.backup
+	rm -f psql$(X) $(OBJS) dumputils.c lex.backup
 
 # files removed here are supposed to be in the distribution tarball,
 # so do not clean them in the clean/distclean rules
diff --git a/src/bin/scripts/.gitignore b/src/bin/scripts/.gitignore
index 1056b2870c0..e12d27a2f1b 100644
--- a/src/bin/scripts/.gitignore
+++ b/src/bin/scripts/.gitignore
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@
 /pg_isready
 
 /dumputils.c
-/keywords.c
-/kwlookup.c
 /mbprint.c
 /print.c
 
diff --git a/src/bin/scripts/Makefile b/src/bin/scripts/Makefile
index c4e04c9aa8a..ad34d42d682 100644
--- a/src/bin/scripts/Makefile
+++ b/src/bin/scripts/Makefile
@@ -25,26 +25,23 @@ all: $(PROGRAMS)
 %: %.o $(WIN32RES)
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $^ $(libpq_pgport) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_EX) $(LIBS) -o $@$(X)
 
-createdb: createdb.o common.o dumputils.o kwlookup.o keywords.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
+createdb: createdb.o common.o dumputils.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
 createlang: createlang.o common.o print.o mbprint.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
-createuser: createuser.o common.o dumputils.o kwlookup.o keywords.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
-dropdb: dropdb.o common.o dumputils.o kwlookup.o keywords.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
+createuser: createuser.o common.o dumputils.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
+dropdb: dropdb.o common.o dumputils.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
 droplang: droplang.o common.o print.o mbprint.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
-dropuser: dropuser.o common.o dumputils.o kwlookup.o keywords.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
-clusterdb: clusterdb.o common.o dumputils.o kwlookup.o keywords.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
-vacuumdb: vacuumdb.o common.o dumputils.o kwlookup.o keywords.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
-reindexdb: reindexdb.o common.o dumputils.o kwlookup.o keywords.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
+dropuser: dropuser.o common.o dumputils.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
+clusterdb: clusterdb.o common.o dumputils.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
+vacuumdb: vacuumdb.o common.o dumputils.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
+reindexdb: reindexdb.o common.o dumputils.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
 pg_isready: pg_isready.o common.o | submake-libpq submake-libpgport
 
-dumputils.c keywords.c: % : $(top_srcdir)/src/bin/pg_dump/%
+dumputils.c: % : $(top_srcdir)/src/bin/pg_dump/%
 	rm -f $@ && $(LN_S) $< .
 
 print.c mbprint.c : % : $(top_srcdir)/src/bin/psql/%
 	rm -f $@ && $(LN_S) $< .
 
-kwlookup.c: % : $(top_srcdir)/src/backend/parser/%
-	rm -f $@ && $(LN_S) $< .
-
 install: all installdirs
 	$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) createdb$(X)   '$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)'/createdb$(X)
 	$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) dropdb$(X)     '$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)'/dropdb$(X)
@@ -65,8 +62,8 @@ uninstall:
 
 clean distclean maintainer-clean:
 	rm -f $(addsuffix $(X), $(PROGRAMS)) $(addsuffix .o, $(PROGRAMS))
-	rm -f common.o dumputils.o kwlookup.o keywords.o print.o mbprint.o $(WIN32RES)
-	rm -f dumputils.c print.c mbprint.c kwlookup.c keywords.c
+	rm -f common.o dumputils.o print.o mbprint.o $(WIN32RES)
+	rm -f dumputils.c print.c mbprint.c
 	rm -rf tmp_check
 
 check:
diff --git a/src/common/Makefile b/src/common/Makefile
index f7a4a4d099a..72b73697a8c 100644
--- a/src/common/Makefile
+++ b/src/common/Makefile
@@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ override CPPFLAGS += -DVAL_LDFLAGS_EX="\"$(LDFLAGS_EX)\""
 override CPPFLAGS += -DVAL_LDFLAGS_SL="\"$(LDFLAGS_SL)\""
 override CPPFLAGS += -DVAL_LIBS="\"$(LIBS)\""
 
-OBJS_COMMON = config_info.o controldata_utils.o exec.o pg_lzcompress.o \
-	pgfnames.o psprintf.o relpath.o rmtree.o string.o username.o wait_error.o
+OBJS_COMMON = config_info.o controldata_utils.o exec.o keywords.o \
+	pg_lzcompress.o pgfnames.o psprintf.o relpath.o rmtree.o \
+	string.o username.o wait_error.o
 
 OBJS_FRONTEND = $(OBJS_COMMON) fe_memutils.o restricted_token.o
 
@@ -83,5 +84,14 @@ $(OBJS_SRV): | submake-errcodes
 submake-errcodes:
 	$(MAKE) -C ../backend submake-errcodes
 
+# Dependencies of keywords.o need to be managed explicitly to make sure
+# that you don't get broken parsing code, even in a non-enable-depend build.
+# Note that gram.h isn't required for the frontend version of keywords.o.
+$(top_builddir)/src/include/parser/gram.h: $(top_srcdir)/src/backend/parser/gram.y
+	$(MAKE) -C $(top_builddir)/src/backend $(top_builddir)/src/include/parser/gram.h
+
+keywords.o: $(top_srcdir)/src/include/parser/kwlist.h
+keywords_srv.o: $(top_builddir)/src/include/parser/gram.h $(top_srcdir)/src/include/parser/kwlist.h
+
 clean distclean maintainer-clean:
 	rm -f libpgcommon.a libpgcommon_srv.a $(OBJS_FRONTEND) $(OBJS_SRV)
diff --git a/src/backend/parser/kwlookup.c b/src/common/keywords.c
similarity index 73%
rename from src/backend/parser/kwlookup.c
rename to src/common/keywords.c
index 4406fef37f4..485dd02e89d 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/kwlookup.c
+++ b/src/common/keywords.c
@@ -1,31 +1,56 @@
 /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  *
- * kwlookup.c
+ * keywords.c
  *	  lexical token lookup for key words in PostgreSQL
  *
- * NB - this file is also used by ECPG and several frontend programs in
- * src/bin/ including pg_dump and psql
  *
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2016, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  src/backend/parser/kwlookup.c
+ *	  src/common/keywords.c
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
+#ifndef FRONTEND
+#include "postgres.h"
+#else
+#include "postgres_fe.h"
+#endif
 
-/* use c.h so this can be built as either frontend or backend */
-#include "c.h"
+#ifndef FRONTEND
 
-#include <ctype.h>
+#include "parser/gramparse.h"
+
+#define PG_KEYWORD(a,b,c) {a,b,c},
+
+#else
+
+#include "common/keywords.h"
+
+/*
+ * We don't need the token number for frontend uses, so leave it out to avoid
+ * requiring backend headers that won't compile cleanly here.
+ */
+#define PG_KEYWORD(a,b,c) {a,0,c},
+
+#endif   /* FRONTEND */
+
+
+const ScanKeyword ScanKeywords[] = {
+#include "parser/kwlist.h"
+};
+
+const int	NumScanKeywords = lengthof(ScanKeywords);
 
-#include "parser/keywords.h"
 
 /*
  * ScanKeywordLookup - see if a given word is a keyword
  *
+ * The table to be searched is passed explicitly, so that this can be used
+ * to search keyword lists other than the standard list appearing above.
+ *
  * Returns a pointer to the ScanKeyword table entry, or NULL if no match.
  *
  * The match is done case-insensitively.  Note that we deliberately use a
diff --git a/src/include/parser/keywords.h b/src/include/common/keywords.h
similarity index 96%
rename from src/include/parser/keywords.h
rename to src/include/common/keywords.h
index 4ac861646d6..577100d1b95 100644
--- a/src/include/parser/keywords.h
+++ b/src/include/common/keywords.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2016, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * src/include/parser/keywords.h
+ * src/include/common/keywords.h
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ typedef struct ScanKeyword
 extern PGDLLIMPORT const ScanKeyword ScanKeywords[];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT const int NumScanKeywords;
 
+
 extern const ScanKeyword *ScanKeywordLookup(const char *text,
 				  const ScanKeyword *keywords,
 				  int num_keywords);
diff --git a/src/include/parser/gramparse.h b/src/include/parser/gramparse.h
index c3ec1992c65..6d8e4937ee0 100644
--- a/src/include/parser/gramparse.h
+++ b/src/include/parser/gramparse.h
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
  *		Shared definitions for the "raw" parser (flex and bison phases only)
  *
  * NOTE: this file is only meant to be included in the core parsing files,
- * ie, parser.c, gram.y, scan.l, and keywords.c.  Definitions that are needed
- * outside the core parser should be in parser.h.
+ * ie, parser.c, gram.y, scan.l, and src/common/keywords.c.
+ * Definitions that are needed outside the core parser should be in parser.h.
  *
  *
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2016, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
diff --git a/src/include/parser/scanner.h b/src/include/parser/scanner.h
index 0060501937f..b885e67a83b 100644
--- a/src/include/parser/scanner.h
+++ b/src/include/parser/scanner.h
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 #ifndef SCANNER_H
 #define SCANNER_H
 
-#include "parser/keywords.h"
+#include "common/keywords.h"
 
 /*
  * The scanner returns extra data about scanned tokens in this union type.
diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/.gitignore b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/.gitignore
index 6fca9aff590..aacfb844bda 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/.gitignore
+++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/.gitignore
@@ -4,4 +4,3 @@
 /pgc.c
 
 /ecpg
-/kwlookup.c
diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/Makefile b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/Makefile
index ee3b13a4afa..30db5a049af 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/Makefile
+++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/Makefile
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ override CPPFLAGS := -I../include -I$(top_srcdir)/src/interfaces/ecpg/include \
 override CFLAGS += $(PTHREAD_CFLAGS) -DECPG_COMPILE
 
 OBJS=	preproc.o pgc.o type.o ecpg.o output.o parser.o \
-	keywords.o c_keywords.o ecpg_keywords.o kwlookup.o ../ecpglib/typename.o descriptor.o variable.o \
+	keywords.o c_keywords.o ecpg_keywords.o ../ecpglib/typename.o descriptor.o variable.o \
 	$(WIN32RES)
 
 # Suppress parallel build to avoid a bug in GNU make 3.82
@@ -53,9 +53,6 @@ preproc.y: ../../../backend/parser/gram.y parse.pl ecpg.addons ecpg.header ecpg.
 
 ecpg_keywords.o c_keywords.o keywords.o preproc.o pgc.o parser.o: preproc.h
 
-kwlookup.c: % : $(top_srcdir)/src/backend/parser/%
-	rm -f $@ && $(LN_S) $< .
-
 distprep: preproc.y preproc.c preproc.h pgc.c
 
 install: all installdirs
@@ -68,7 +65,7 @@ uninstall:
 	rm -f '$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/ecpg$(X)'
 
 clean distclean:
-	rm -f kwlookup.c *.o ecpg$(X)
+	rm -f *.o ecpg$(X)
 # garbage from development
 	@rm -f core a.out
 
diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/extern.h b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/extern.h
index ea8fd8ed98c..f6841726e4a 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/extern.h
+++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/extern.h
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 #define _ECPG_PREPROC_EXTERN_H
 
 #include "type.h"
-#include "parser/keywords.h"
+
+#include "common/keywords.h"
 
 #include <errno.h>
 #ifndef CHAR_BIT
diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/keywords.c b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/keywords.c
index 2f17f0c5c02..cffdaed67b0 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/keywords.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/keywords.c
@@ -15,13 +15,23 @@
  */
 #include "postgres_fe.h"
 
-#include "parser/keywords.h"
-#include "type.h"
+/*
+ * This is much trickier than it looks.  We are #include'ing kwlist.h
+ * but the "value" numbers that go into the table are from preproc.h
+ * not the backend's gram.h.  Therefore this table will recognize all
+ * keywords known to the backend, but will supply the token numbers used
+ * by ecpg's grammar, which is what we need.  The ecpg grammar must
+ * define all the same token names the backend does, else we'll get
+ * undefined-symbol failures in this compile.
+ */
+
+#include "common/keywords.h"
+
 #include "extern.h"
 #include "preproc.h"
 
-#define PG_KEYWORD(a,b,c) {a,b,c},
 
+#define PG_KEYWORD(a,b,c) {a,b,c},
 
 const ScanKeyword SQLScanKeywords[] = {
 #include "parser/kwlist.h"
diff --git a/src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm b/src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm
index 012b327d9d2..8716642847a 100644
--- a/src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm
+++ b/src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm
@@ -108,8 +108,9 @@ sub mkvcbuild
 	}
 
 	our @pgcommonallfiles = qw(
-	  config_info.c controldata_utils.c exec.c pg_lzcompress.c pgfnames.c
-	  psprintf.c relpath.c rmtree.c string.c username.c wait_error.c);
+	  config_info.c controldata_utils.c exec.c keywords.c
+	  pg_lzcompress.c pgfnames.c psprintf.c relpath.c rmtree.c
+	  string.c username.c wait_error.c);
 
 	our @pgcommonfrontendfiles = (
 		@pgcommonallfiles, qw(fe_memutils.c
@@ -343,8 +344,6 @@ sub mkvcbuild
 	$pgdump->AddFile('src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c');
 	$pgdump->AddFile('src/bin/pg_dump/common.c');
 	$pgdump->AddFile('src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump_sort.c');
-	$pgdump->AddFile('src/bin/pg_dump/keywords.c');
-	$pgdump->AddFile('src/backend/parser/kwlookup.c');
 	$pgdump->AddLibrary('ws2_32.lib');
 
 	my $pgdumpall = AddSimpleFrontend('pg_dump', 1);
@@ -360,16 +359,12 @@ sub mkvcbuild
 	$pgdumpall->AddIncludeDir('src/backend');
 	$pgdumpall->AddFile('src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.c');
 	$pgdumpall->AddFile('src/bin/pg_dump/dumputils.c');
-	$pgdumpall->AddFile('src/bin/pg_dump/keywords.c');
-	$pgdumpall->AddFile('src/backend/parser/kwlookup.c');
 	$pgdumpall->AddLibrary('ws2_32.lib');
 
 	my $pgrestore = AddSimpleFrontend('pg_dump', 1);
 	$pgrestore->{name} = 'pg_restore';
 	$pgrestore->AddIncludeDir('src/backend');
 	$pgrestore->AddFile('src/bin/pg_dump/pg_restore.c');
-	$pgrestore->AddFile('src/bin/pg_dump/keywords.c');
-	$pgrestore->AddFile('src/backend/parser/kwlookup.c');
 	$pgrestore->AddLibrary('ws2_32.lib');
 
 	my $zic = $solution->AddProject('zic', 'exe', 'utils');
@@ -618,15 +613,7 @@ sub mkvcbuild
 		foreach my $f (@files)
 		{
 			$f =~ s/\.o$/\.c/;
-			if ($f eq 'keywords.c')
-			{
-				$proj->AddFile('src/bin/pg_dump/keywords.c');
-			}
-			elsif ($f eq 'kwlookup.c')
-			{
-				$proj->AddFile('src/backend/parser/kwlookup.c');
-			}
-			elsif ($f eq 'dumputils.c')
+			if ($f eq 'dumputils.c')
 			{
 				$proj->AddFile('src/bin/pg_dump/dumputils.c');
 			}