Re: [PATCHES] libpq type system 0.9a

Andrew Chernow wrote:
> Your method would work as well. The only issue is you still have the
> same issue of binary distributed libpqs. Would redhat distribute a
> binary linked with libpqtypes? If not, you have the same issue of the
> end-user having to compile libpq ... passing -lpqtypes to the linker.
> If redhat did link it, you run into the disk space complaint all over again.
>
> My suggestion was trying to work around this by dynamically loading the
> library, PQtypesEnable(TRUE). In this model, redhat doesn't even have
> to distribute libpqtypes.so (considering the disk space issue). It
> could be easily be an additional download. All you need are some proxy
> functions inside libpq, PQputf calling a dynamically loaded function.
> This passes the disk space complaints and doesn't require a re-compile
> if an end-user wants to use it.

I don't see requiring users to add -lpqtypes to use these functions as a
problem. The idea is that the default libpq would have enough hooks
that you could use it without modification.

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