Re: [PATCHES] libpq type system 0.9a

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > All I am trying to say is, redhat's core packages are normally very
> > inclusive. Like apache, which includes many/most modules in the core
> > package.
> >
>
> There are plenty of modules that they don't include, e.g. mod_fastcgi.
> If you want that you download and build it against your installed
> apache. Or you get mod_fcgid from extras.
>
> Your bolt-on client library would be in exactly the same boat as one of
> those.

I think Andrew Chernow is fundamentally confused about dynamic linking,
which apache has to use because it doesn't know what type of file it has
to handle, with linking, which is bound to the application code.
pgtypes is bound to the application code so it is not like apache --- an
application isn't going to be fed arbitrary pgtypes function calls it
has to handle.

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