X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E9A329E4B for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:45:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23710-01 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:44:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from trolak.mydnsbox2.com (ns1.mydnsbox2.com [207.44.142.118]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF288329E32 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:44:55 +0100 (BST) Received: from dunslane.net (cpe-024-211-141-025.nc.rr.com [24.211.141.25]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by trolak.mydnsbox2.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i8NDrF121181; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:53:15 -0500 Message-ID: <4152D352.9010603@dunslane.net> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:44:50 -0400 From: Andrew Dunstan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040116 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Eisentraut Cc: Thomas Hallgren , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Use of zlib References: <200409231412.29763.peter_e@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200409231412.29763.peter_e@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200409/722 X-Sequence-Number: 59288 Peter Eisentraut wrote: >Am Donnerstag, 23. September 2004 13:02 schrieb Thomas Hallgren: > > >> From what I can understand from the documentation, the only utility in >>PostgreSQL that actually uses zlib is pg_dump? If so, why is the >>postgres process linked with -lz? >> >> > >Because we are too lazy to fine-tune the build system for cases like this. >The best solution would be to build zlib with symbol versioning. > > > Or to be less lazy ;-) Is it such a huge task? There have been complaints before about our maximal linking. cheers andrew