Matt England <mengland@mengland.net> writes:
> Is it safe to make a build with './configure --without-zlib'?
> What's the consequences of doing this? Will something not work properly in
> the resulting psql application/database?
AFAIR the only thing you lose is the ability to create or read
compressed custom-format dump files in pg_dump/pg_restore. You
can certainly live without this --- unless you need to read
compressed dumps that someone else sends you.
regards, tom lane