Re: [GENERAL] plPHP in core?

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>
>>Actually as I think about it... that is not the case even now. When
>>we download the php source the base configure before compile is:
>>
>>./configure --disable-all
>>
>>Thus no use of PostgreSQL whatsoever.
>>
>>
>
>I'm sure it is possible to get around it manually, but think about
>distributors. They probably compile PHP more to the tunes of
>--enable-everything. I don't think they will like it if we tell them
>that they need to switch to a two-stage build process or something.
>
>
Well I can't speak to anything but Linux. Most Linux
distributions (at least the significant ones) break PHP
up into several different packages and things like mysql
and php are specifically different packages.

Yes those packages would require libpq but that has nothing
to do with plPHP.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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