Re: Compiling without libpq

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Mark Hellegers <mark@firedisk.net>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > what is the difference in compiling with or without libpq?
> > I understand that without libpq is convenient if you do not have
> > PostgreSQL installed on the system, but then why would I want to
> > compile with libpq?
> > I see in configure script that openssl is disabled if I compile
> > without
> > libpq. Why is that and what functionality do I loose exactly?
> > The reason I am asking is that I would like to make a package for
> > it
> > for Haiku and I would like to know if is worth it to see if I need
> > to
> > create two packages (one for users who have PostgreSQL installed
> > and
> > one for those without it).
>
> Note that Postgres ODBC has a hard dependency with libpq on HEAD
> because the things at protocol level that were used in the driver are
> basically duplicates of what the libpq routines offer. Hence you may
> want to compile with libpq in your packages to be in-line with the
> next version to be released.

Thank you and Joshua for the feedback.
I will create one package compiled with libpq then.

Kind regards,

Mark Hellegers

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