Re: doc: pgevent.dll location - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 12.11.24 18:27, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 11:52 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>> So the most straightforward way to "make it work like it used to" would
>> be to change src/bin/pgevent/meson.build to use shared_module() instead
>> of shared_library().
>>
>> Based on the explanation in the documentation, this file is really more
>> of a plugin and less a shared library, so I think that approach would be
>> more correct than not.
> 
> I don't understand what the difference is between a shared module and
> a shared library, so I find it odd that meson treats them differently.

In this context, a shared module is something like plpgsql or hstore 
that you dlopen, and a shared library is something like libpq or libecpg 
that you -l at build time.