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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> writes:
> On Tue, 2026-05-12 at 19:52 -0700, Igor Korot wrote:
>> There used to be a split builds - one package to build the server and a=
nother to build the client (libpq). This is no longer the case.

The short answer is that we dropped that build option because it
was no longer worth the trouble to support.  Building the whole
package and then ignoring the parts you don't need takes only
a few minutes longer on any remotely-modern hardware.  Certainly,
you've wasted more time complaining than it would take to do that.

			regards, tom lane