Chris Traylor wrote: > > Configure options are generally a pain in the neck, > > Granted. Especially, if all the ifdefs start making the source hard > to read, but they are a viable compile-time way to allow the user to > make the decision for themselves.
This missing piece of information here is that 98.6% of our users never compile the source code, so that decision will have to be made by the packager who will always use the option that is acceptable to the plurality of the users. That is why we have removed most feature-related compile-time choices and are very hesitant to add new ones. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
