Re: zlib for pg_dump - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: zlib for pg_dump
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0007060213570.347-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: zlib for pg_dump  (Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>)
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Philip Warner writes:

> The feature (compressed backup output in pg_dump) is not readily deducible
> from '--with-zlib'. It might be better to output a message from configure
> if a needed library is not found:
> 
> "zlib compression library not found, pg_dump archives will not support
> compression".

That's exactly what we should not do. You forget that not only humans run
configure scripts, it might be other programs, which can't "read".


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