On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 09:55:23AM +0200, Thomas Pundt wrote: > On Sunday 22 October 2006 09:43, Low Kian Seong wrote: > | It says in the postgresql 8 documentation : > | > | "If PostgreSQL was built on a system with the zlib compression library > | installed, the custom dump format will compress data as it writes it to the > | output file" > | > | My question, if we are using binaries on a rpm based system and without > | looking at the src.rpm is there a way to query the postgresql server to > | find out whether it was built against the zlib compression library ? > > ldd /path/to/your/bin/postgres | grep libz
You should be checking the libraries used by pg_dump, not postgres. It's pg_dump that does the compression, the actual server does not use an external compression library (directly anyway). Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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