On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 06:57:18PM +0200, Wolfgang Walther wrote: > Jacob Champion: > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM Wolfgang Walther <walt...@technowledgy.de> > > wrote: > > > And that should also not be a problem for distributions - they could > > > offer a libpq and a libpq_oauth package, where only one of them can be > > > installed at the same time, I guess? * > > My outsider understanding is that maintaining this sort of thing > > becomes a major headache, because of combinatorics. You don't really > > want to ship a libpq and libpq-with-gss and libpq-with-oauth and > > libpq-with-oauth-and-gss and ... > > That would only be the case, if you were to consider those other > dependencies as "dangerous" as cURL. But we already depend on them. So if > it's really the case that cURL is that much worse, that we consider loading > it as a module... then the combinatorics should not be a problem either. > > However, if the other deps are considered problematic as well, then the ship > has already sailed, and there is not point for a special case here anymore.
Yes, I think this is what I am asking too. For me it was curl's security reputation and whether that would taint the security reputation of libpq. For Tom, I think it was the dependency additions. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Do not let urgent matters crowd out time for investment in the future.
