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Re: Why not install pgstattuple by default?

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Greg Smith <greg@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>, Josh Berkus <josh.berkus@pgexperts.com>, postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-07T21:32:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On lör, 2011-05-07 at 17:06 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> The repmgr program we distribute has the same problem, so I've been 
> getting first-hand reports of just how many people are likely to run 
> into this recently.  You have to install postgresql-devel with RPM and
> on Debian, the very non-obvious postgresql-server-dev-$version 

I'm pretty sure that for installing modules that need compilation from
CPAN or PyPI, you will need the corresponding p*-dev* package installed.
Nothing new here.  I don't think you will get distributors to abandon
the concept of -dev(el) packages for this.  Just saying.