Re: [PORTS] mingw: is configure --without-zlib ok?

Tom Lane <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:21:42 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Matt England <[email protected]> writes:
> Is it safe to make a build with './configure --without-zlib'?

> What's the consequences of doing this?  Will something not work properly in 
> the resulting psql application/database?

AFAIR the only thing you lose is the ability to create or read
compressed custom-format dump files in pg_dump/pg_restore.  You
can certainly live without this --- unless you need to read
compressed dumps that someone else sends you.

			regards, tom lane

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