[Up front: yes, I'm following up to a post that's nearly three months
old. I can't find any more recent discussion of this issue.]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) writes:
> (Of course, if you can show that there's a significant penalty in
> backend launch time from having useless shlibs linked in,
Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > Backend only forks(). I think you would be better off using
> > Makefile macros to _remove_ those two libraries.
> >
> > I see this:
> >
> > $(filter crypt.o getaddrinfo.o inet_aton.o snprintf.o strerror.o path.o
> > thread.o, $(LIBOBJS))
> >
> > Seems you need
Sean Chittenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Is it really necessary for postgres to be linked with ncurses
>>> (288K) and readline (156K)? It's .5M, not the end of the world,
>>> but it seems excessive. I know the postmaster has a CLI
>>> interface, but does it really require ncurses or readli
> > > We add those to all links, mostly because it is too confusing to
> > > do it per link. It doesn't hurt anything because it is
> > > dynamically linked, so doesn't take any disk space, and in fact
> > > is never called.
> >
> > My concern wasn't for disk space, but for symbol resolution time
Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > We add those to all links, mostly because it is too confusing to do
> > it per link. It doesn't hurt anything because it is dynamically
> > linked, so doesn't take any disk space, and in fact is never called.
>
> My concern wasn't for disk space, but for symbol resoluti
> > % ldd `which postgres`
> > /usr/local/bin/postgres:
> > libintl.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.5 (0x282e6000)
> > libz.so.2 => /lib/libz.so.2 (0x282ef000)
> > libreadline.so.4 => /lib/libreadline.so.4 (0x282fd000)
> > libcrypt.so.2 => /lib/libcrypt.so.2 (0x283
Sean Chittenden wrote:
> % ldd `which postgres`
> /usr/local/bin/postgres:
> libintl.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.5 (0x282e6000)
> libz.so.2 => /lib/libz.so.2 (0x282ef000)
> libreadline.so.4 => /lib/libreadline.so.4 (0x282fd000)
> libcrypt.so.2 => /lib/libcrypt.
% ldd `which postgres`
/usr/local/bin/postgres:
libintl.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.5 (0x282e6000)
libz.so.2 => /lib/libz.so.2 (0x282ef000)
libreadline.so.4 => /lib/libreadline.so.4 (0x282fd000)
libcrypt.so.2 => /lib/libcrypt.so.2 (0x28325000)
libm.so.2
