Re: 'configure --disable-shared' and 'make check'

Tom Lane wrote:
> It's at least theoretically possible that you could link selected PL
> objects into a static backend build, but no one is particularly
> interested in expending effort on it.  There don't seem to be any
> platforms anymore on which --disable-shared is actually important.
> (Should we just get rid of it?)
>
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>   

There is just one case where I think static linking might make some 
sense: pg_dump for use during an upgrade. Unfortunately, at least on 
Linux I found it to be close to impossible, as it uses some things that 
are apparently only available dynamically - I forget the details.

So basically, I would say yes, let's just drop --disable-shared.

cheers

andrew