Peter Eisentraut writes:
>> I don't see much value in fixing this just for libreadline (and even
>> less in fixing it by disabling readline support entirely). I think I
>> recall Peter E. having mentioned that there'd be a better answer in
>> autoconf 2.50 ... so I'm inclined not to touch the pro
> It is my understanding that having them there causes no bloat in the
> binary. No symbols are resolved in those libs.
>>
>> Perhaps not, but the postgres binary then becomes dependent on those
>> libs being available (if they're shared).
> Good point.
Autoconf has a bad habit of putting all
Bruce Momjian writes:
>> I realize this is a sort of special-purpose request. It's not a big
>> deal to build the whole thing, then just relink src/backend/postgres
>> without those libs. It just feels dirty to have them there when they
>> aren't needed.
>>
>
>It is my understanding that having