On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> If, instead, you are keen on getting the source code for libpq in a
>> separate tarball, I'd seriously question why that would be expected to be
>> valuable. On most systems, these days, it doesn't take terribly much time
>> or space (on our systems with lots of GBs) to build all of Postgres, so
>> separating the source code to the library out seems like an effort with not
>> much value.
>
> We did do that, many years ago, and dropped it because the demand was
> too minuscule to justify the maintenance effort. I'd imagine that the
> usefulness ratio has only gotten smaller since then.
Maybe anl libs / install-libs makefile target?
I've already faced the complicated procedure one has to go through to
build and install only libpq built from source.