Hi, On 2025-10-21 12:02:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Benjamin Leff <[email protected]> writes: > >> I believe the prevailing opinion was that the amount > >> of time saved by not building all of PG didn't justify the maintenance > >> effort to keep the build scripts working for that case > > > IMO, it’s not just about time. For bare bones package managers when there’s > > no need to build the server, this saves a few GB. > > It's still fundamentally about trading off machine resources versus > people time, though, and that tradeoff is not getting more attractive.
The impact really depends on what we define a client-only build as. It'd not be hard at all to add a meta target that just builds a subset of the tree. It'd be slightly harder, but still not that hard, to add a target to install just a subset of libraries / binaries. What would be a bit harder would be to add a configure-time switch to only build client binaries. Mainly because, I think, it'd increase the test matrix more than a dedicated build target would. Benjamin, what precisely are you looking for with a client-only build? Greetings, Andres Freund
