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Re: Problem linking with Release library

Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>

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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>, "pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-05-13T04:32:25Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
On Tue, 2026-05-12 at 19:52 -0700, Igor Korot wrote:
> There used to be a split builds - one package to build the server and another to build the client (libpq). This is no longer the case. 
> PostgreSQL positions itself as client-server RDBMS,  so why in order to build the client I need the full blown server to download?

I don't have Windows at my disposal, so I cannot investigate this, but it
strikes me that you are complaining for the sake of complaining.

I have never seen a client-only source download for PostgreSQL, so you always
had to download the complete source.  What is the problem?  Does your
internet connection have a problem with downloading 30MB?

And if you have to build the entire server just to get the client library,
what is the problem with that?  Yes, it will take somewhat longer, but I
don't see that as a problem unless you are building the software several
times a day, which seems unlikely for a production build.

It used to be that I could fit a custom-built Linux kernel on a 1.44MB
rescue floppy disk.  Still, I don't complain to the LKML that I can no longer
do that.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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