This matches the behavior of the makefiles and the old MSVC build system. The main effect is that the build result gets installed into pkglibdir rather than bindir. The documentation says to locate the library in pkglibdir, so this makes the code match the documentation again. Reviewed-by: Ryohei Takahashi (Fujitsu) <r.takahashi_2@fujitsu.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/TY3PR01MB118912125614599641CA881B782522%40TY3PR01MB11891.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
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/17/. In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source code can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/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/.