On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 02:46:09PM +0200, Reinhard Max wrote:

> it appears all of PostgreSQL's binaries are linked against libreadline and 
> libncurses, but the only one that really needs them seems to be psql.
> 
> Is there a reason behind this other than that it might be easier to have 
> only one set of linker switches that can be used for everything?

No.  In fact somebody came up with a patch to solve that and it was
rejected because of maintenability (or portability) issues.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
FOO MANE PADME HUM

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