Re: deb package sizes

Re: Jeremy Schneider
> I'm wondering if there might be any support for providing a
> "postgresql-slim" package on PGDG which excludes llvm and python? I
> think this might almost cut the total install size in half, and I think
> there might be many users who would value having the option.

Hi,

could you explain why 250 MB is too much? Disk space these days is
ultra cheap and removing functionality (query JITing) does have cost
as well.

> Even though ICU is a larger package, I would argue for still
> including it in a "slim" build. Because of the drama around glibc
> collation I view ICU as especially important to make available.

Note that ICU does not fix the collation drama either, you will have
to reindex on ICU upgrades as well.

Christoph