Re: Use of zlib

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Am Donnerstag, 23. September 2004 13:02 schrieb Thomas Hallgren:
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>> 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?
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>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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Or to be less lazy ;-) Is it such a huge task? There have been 
complaints before about our maximal linking.

cheers

andrew