| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [SQL] Re: [GENERAL] lztext and compression ratios... |
| Date: | 2000-07-08 01:19:50 |
| Message-ID: | 200007080119.VAA14375@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> This remoinded me of a question I wanted to ask Unix people: other OSs I
> use allow for dynamic linking, at runtime and in code, against shared
> libraries, and I know Unix must allow this. The places where zlib is used
> are pretty limited, so it might be worth considering doing the 'HAVE_ZLIB'
> kinds of checks at runtime. Then one binary fits all...
>
> Is this hard or easy - at least on machines with a libz.so?
>
> Is it worth doing?
>
> I guess the alternative on rpm is to create both: pg_dump.zlib and
> pg_dump.nozlib, and install the right one?
We do dynamic loading for functions. Not sure if we want to load zlib
dynamically if we can help it.
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