Re: doc: pgevent.dll location

On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 at 15:10, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 1:00 AM Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet(at)singh(dot)im> wrote:
> > I'm unable to confirm the veracity of the claim that the pgevent.dll
> > file on Windows is now placed in a different directory, and that this
> > is a result of meson builds. But the patch looks good to me; it
> > applies cleanly to REL_17_STABLE and main branches.
>
> I think we will need to find someone who can confirm whether or not
> the claim is correct.
>

It is correct. In v16, it was in lib/, in v17, bin/.

However, on Windows I think it probably makes (marginally) more sense to
include it in bin/ - we already have other libraries in there that are
linked at compile time. pgevent is something of a special case, but it's
probably more similar to those libraries than the extensions etc. that are
in lib/.

Related sidenote: I got a complaint today that pg_regress.exe is no longer
part of the Windows installation footprint - and indeed, it's not installed
at all with Meson builds, which is problematic for those doing CI/CD
testing of extensions.

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