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We now support the common meson option -Ddefault_library, with values 'both' (the default), 'shared' (install only shared libraries), and 'static' (install only static libraries). The 'static' choice doesn't actually work, since psql and other programs insist on linking to the shared version of libpq, but it's there pro-forma. It could be built out if we really wanted, but since we have never supported the equivalent in the autoconf build system, there doesn't appear to be an urgent need. With an eye to re-supporting AIX, the internal implementation distinguishes whether to install libpgport.a and other static-only libraries from whether to build/install the static variant of libraries that we can build both ways. This detail isn't exposed as a meson option, though it could be if there's demand. The Cirrus CI task SanityCheck now uses -Ddefault_library=shared to save a little bit of build time (and to test this option). Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e8aa97db-872b-4087-b073-f296baae948d@eisentraut.org
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT.
General documentation about this version of PostgreSQL can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/. In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source code can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/installation.html.
The latest version of this software, and related software, may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.