Re: RE: [HACKERS] Kerberos V5 required for PostgreSQL installation on Windows

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Zeugswetter Andreas OSB sIT <Andreas(dot)Zeugswetter(at)s-itsolutions(dot)at>, Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RE: [HACKERS] Kerberos V5 required for PostgreSQL installation on Windows
Date: 2009-02-27 09:39:23
Message-ID: 49A7B4CB.3080405@hagander.net
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Zeugswetter Andreas OSB sIT
> <Andreas(dot)Zeugswetter(at)s-itsolutions(dot)at> wrote:
>> We should delayload this dll since it is only needed
>> for specific configuration. No need to install when it is not used.
>
> That would require building knowledge of DLL names into the code,
> which isn't practical as some projects have a habit of changing them
> regularly (e.g. gettext).

Are you sure?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hf3f62bz.aspx

seems to indicate that you can do it on just the commandline if you want to?

(I haven't tried it so I don't know if it's actually doable)

> I'm not sure why Dann would see this problem - all our installers
> include the required DLLs, and they should also be in the
> binaries-no-installer packages. If he's built the binary himself, then
> he obviously has the import libraries for Kerberos, so where are the
> DLLs?

That is also a valid question, though.

//Magnus

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