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Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-05-18T20:00:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > This is very much different, because the PHP distribution contains
> > the PostgreSQL driver, whereas the other languages do not.  So you
> > would have
> >
> > PHP build depends on PostgreSQL
>
> Ahh I see your point, EXCEPT :) plPHP does not require PostgreSQL
> support to be built into PHP.

That is irrelevant.  A normal binary package of PHP does build the 
PostgreSQL support (which is surely in our interest), so the build 
dependency holds.

>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
> > PostgreSQL build depends on PHP
> >
> > Not good.