Hi Tom, On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 3:11 PM Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Igor Korot <ikorot01@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I wonder who ade the decision not to provide an independent build > > of the client library of PostgreSQL? And what was the reason behind it? > > It wasn't worth the maintenance trouble. It still isn't. On any > remotely-modern machine, a build of the whole tree is only going > to take a minute or two. And libpq doesn't change so fast that > you'd need to do this often. But building the whole tree is just that - useless. All I need is the libpq to connect to the remote server. So I don't need the server to be built - I need a client. > > Having said that, it does work on non-Windows machines to do > ./configure ... > cd src/interfaces/libpq > make -s install Well, asking people to download the whole source tree just to build client library 1000 times and then 1000 times delete the source code... I don't know - I'd rather have to install just the library. > > The Windows case is exactly what we killed as not being worth > the maintenance effort, so I doubt you'll find much interest > in resurrecting that one. So instead of simplifying the life of maintainers in the different distros you made the life easier for yourself. ;;-) Thank you. > > regards, tom lane
