Re: Client-only Meson Build From Sources

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Benjamin Leff <benjamin.w.leff@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-10-21T16:02:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Benjamin Leff <benjamin.w.leff@gmail.com> writes:
>> I believe the prevailing opinion was that the amount
>> of time saved by not building all of PG didn't justify the maintenance
>> effort to keep the build scripts working for that case

> IMO, it’s not just about time. For bare bones package managers when there’s
> no need to build the server, this saves a few GB.

It's still fundamentally about trading off machine resources versus
people time, though, and that tradeoff is not getting more attractive.

			regards, tom lane