Re: libpq

On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 04:04:51PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> It seems not unusual for Linux distributions to supply libpq as part of a
> separate package (whether via dpkg, which I think uses "ar" as the
> archiver, or RPM, which uses cpio).
>
> Possibly this is already provided on your system via some means akin to
> those.
>
> If, instead, you are keen on getting the source code for libpq in a
> separate tarball, I'd seriously question why that would be expected to be
> valuable. On most systems, these days, it doesn't take terribly much time
> or space (on our systems with lots of GBs) to build all of Postgres, so
> separating the source code to the library out seems like an effort with not
> much value.
>
+1 For a Linux box the entire installation is <50MB. Now if it were something
large like *racle, maybe....

Regards,
Ken

>
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Stefan <humdumdedum(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Would it be possible to provide libpq in separate tarbal or is that too
> > much to ask for ?
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Stefan
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