Very tentative answer but I suspect it may be nonsense but...

Did the --java option sneak in to allow for the Minho Stats package which 
required some sort of Java extension for Postgres ?

Cheers, Robin.


Robin Taylor
Main Library
University of Edinburgh
Tel. 0131 6513808  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark H. Wood [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 26 January 2010 15:37
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] options about postgresql.
> 
> I use the PostgreSQL delivered by Gentoo's package manager, 
> so I no longer deal directly with the source package or its 
> 'configure'
> script, but:
> 
> It appears that multibyte and Unicode support can no longer 
> be turned off.  I would ignore those.  Pg appears to support 
> Unicode just fine without them.
> 
> I don't recall what the --java option did.  If it's no longer 
> optional, it can be ignored too.
> 
> I would just build it without any of these no-longer-provided 
> configure options.  I have various DSpaces using Pg 8.0, 8.2, 
> and 8.3 without apparent problems.
> 
> I'm fetching 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 now to find out when these 
> options disappeared, so that the documentation can be updated.
> 
> -- 
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> 
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