Re: Use of zlib - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

I am confused.  I just checked my backend binary and I don't see any
unusual libs required:
$ ldd postgres       libz.so => /usr/lib/libz.so (0x2833f000)       libncurses.so.5 => /shlib/libncurses.so.5
(0x2834e000)      libdl.so => /shlib/libdl.so (0x2838c000)       libm.so => /shlib/libm.so.0.0 (0x2838f000)
libgcc.so.1=> /shlib/libgcc.so.1 (0x283a0000)       libc.so.2 => /shlib/libc.so.2 (0x283ac000)
 

The libncurses is a little unusual but I don't see libreadline in there
even though it is on the link line.

Are some OS's adding libs that aren't required by the binary?

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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> 
> Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> 
> > Problem:
> > PL/Java use a JVM. On some platforms and with some JVM's (Sun's in 
> > particular) a libzip.so is bundled that contains a 1.1.3 version of 
> > functions also provided in zlib (why they do this is beyond me, but 
> > they do so I'll have to live with it). PostgreSQL is linked with zlib 
> > by default. This resuls in a conflict which resuls in a JVM crash.
> >
> > I can circumvein this crash by using LD_PRELOAD to force a load of the 
> > JVM bundled libzip.so but I suspect that might result in a crash as 
> > soon as PostgreSQL calls on zlib to do something. It's of course 
> > possible to configure postgresql with --without-zlib also provided you 
> > have accesst o the source.
> >
> > Question:
> > 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?
> >
> >
> 
> I did a small experiment by installing binutils 2.15 and adding 
> -Wl,--as-needed to the LDFLAGS, as Tom had suggested might be useful.
> 
> This seemed to work quite well and trimmed back the needed libs quite a 
> bit. However, when you configure --with-openssl, libz is again linked in.
> 
> Not sure where that leaves us.
> 
> cheers
> 
> andrew
> 
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