Re: doc: pgevent.dll location

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Ryohei Takahashi (Fujitsu)" <r(dot)takahashi_2(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet(at)singh(dot)im>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: doc: pgevent.dll location
Date: 2024-11-12 20:06:10
Message-ID: 0df0d076-3967-4857-b989-d2c7b401c76d@eisentraut.org
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On 12.11.24 18:27, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 11:52 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
>> So the most straightforward way to "make it work like it used to" would
>> be to change src/bin/pgevent/meson.build to use shared_module() instead
>> of shared_library().
>>
>> Based on the explanation in the documentation, this file is really more
>> of a plugin and less a shared library, so I think that approach would be
>> more correct than not.
>
> I don't understand what the difference is between a shared module and
> a shared library, so I find it odd that meson treats them differently.

In this context, a shared module is something like plpgsql or hstore
that you dlopen, and a shared library is something like libpq or libecpg
that you -l at build time.

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