Hi Hans, On Wed, 8 Jul 2026 at 13:24, Hans Buschmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you for pointing me to the pg_config options. I didn't know and will > take a look.
No problem! > > If the normal user cannot handle compiler options, then should they > > really be self-compiling PostgreSQL with custom compiler options, for > > a platform that already has pre-compiled binary distributions? > > As already mentioned in my original post, there are some cases a "normal" > user (in my terminology it is a db responsible not experienced with C > programming practice) may use a manual recompile: > > The user should be able to recompile the package (which is really very easy > with meson after some setup of developer packages) without deeper knowledge > of C programming with the original configuration of the distribution. I agree, and generally, they are able to do that when they have the original configuration of the distribution. However, what you're asking here is that we, in the postgresql.git repository, supply "the original configuration of the distribution". That's not part of the scope of the postgresql.git repository. Packagers are downstream consumers of our repository, and their specific configurations are therefore not part of the main PG git repository. If you have problems with PGDG's binary distributions, or otherwise questions (e.g. how to build your own binaries in a way that's compatible with distributed versions), there are various channels you can use to contact the packagers. For example, the apt repo's maintainers can be contacted with the details found at https://apt.postgresql.org#Contact Kind regards, Matthias van de Meent Databricks (https://www.databricks.com)
