On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 04:04:51PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote: > It seems not unusual for Linux distributions to supply libpq as part of a > separate package (whether via dpkg, which I think uses "ar" as the > archiver, or RPM, which uses cpio). > > Possibly this is already provided on your system via some means akin to > those. > > If, instead, you are keen on getting the source code for libpq in a > separate tarball, I'd seriously question why that would be expected to be > valuable. On most systems, these days, it doesn't take terribly much time > or space (on our systems with lots of GBs) to build all of Postgres, so > separating the source code to the library out seems like an effort with not > much value. > +1 For a Linux box the entire installation is <50MB. Now if it were something large like *racle, maybe....
Regards, Ken > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Stefan <humdumde...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Would it be possible to provide libpq in separate tarbal or is that too > > much to ask for ? > > > > Thank you! > > > > Kind regards > > Stefan > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > > To make changes to your subscription: > > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers > > > > > > -- > When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the > question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?" -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers