On 5/4/2017 2:19 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:31 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com <mailto:pie...@hogranch.com>> wrote:

    On 5/3/2017 2:20 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:


        Please note that this method of building libpq has been
        removed from Postgres 10, so it's considered to be deprecated
        for quite some time.


    this page
    https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/install-windows-libpq.html
    <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/install-windows-libpq.html>
    probably should be updated then.


That page is completely gone in version 10. If you look at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/install-windows.html you will notice the entire 17.2 section has been removed, as well as the text on the root page referring to it.


well, dropped in the latest not-yet-released version doesn't really make it 'deprecated for quite some time'. if this has been the long term intention, the docs should have reflected this some revisions back.

I still think the Windows packagers (<cough>EnterpriseDB</cough>) should have a client-only package which has options to just install the libs, or the libs + client utils (psql, pg_dump/restore/dumpall and optionally pg_admin). I realize that this wouldn't be /that/ much smaller than the whole 9 yards, but its a psychological thing for the end user, they think of the server as 'heavy', also would be good for automated client deployments in business envirnoments.


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