| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: zlib for pg_dump |
| Date: | 2000-07-06 00:15:33 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.21.0007060213570.347-100000@localhost.localdomain |
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Philip Warner writes:
> The feature (compressed backup output in pg_dump) is not readily deducible
> from '--with-zlib'. It might be better to output a message from configure
> if a needed library is not found:
>
> "zlib compression library not found, pg_dump archives will not support
> compression".
That's exactly what we should not do. You forget that not only humans run
configure scripts, it might be other programs, which can't "read".
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