Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: > Any such platform would already be contending with plpgsql not working, > encoding conversion not working, etc etc. It's barely conceivable that > a client-only installation would be useful.
Uh, I don't understand why it's so hard to conceive that someone might need the client library to access a database running on one machine from an application running on another. > AFAICT the only case where anyone tries to do this is they have a > personal preference to avoid shared libraries, for generally-pretty- > darn-dubious reasons. Well, statically linked binaries are much easier to distribute, for one; and there are platforms where shared libraries simply do not exist, or where the entire system runs in a single namespace. Netware is still alive and kicking. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
