Re: Use of zlib

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.

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Peter Eisentraut
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