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List:       postgresql-general
Subject:    Re: [GENERAL] Re: Remote PostgreSQL database - C/C++ program / Unix / Required Libraries
From:       John R Pierce <pierce () hogranch ! com>
Date:       2014-11-30 22:16:43
Message-ID: 547B974B.7050903 () hogranch ! com
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On 11/30/2014 2:03 PM, Léa Massiot wrote:
> I actually asked the question out of curiosity.
> (And also because I was working on a machine with no PostgreSQL installed. I
> was wondering if I had to install a whole PostgreSQL system or not).


In the RH/CentOS/Fedora world, you CAN install just the runtime 
libraries and -devel packages (postgresqlXY-libs and -devel) to do C 
programming.   I'm not sure if the debian/ubuntu packages have the same 
granularity.

the 'whole postgres system' is really rather compact.   a client-only 
user could well need not only the runtime library libpq.so and 
associated .h files, but also need pg_config, psql, pg_dump, 
pg_restore...   about the only parts a client-only user wouldn't use 
would be the actual server 'postgres', and pg_ctl, these files combined 
are just a few megabytes.

the full install of everything including contributed libraries is 34MB 
on my CentOS 6 64bit server....



-- 
john r pierce                                      37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast



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