[R-sig-DB] license issues R vs. PostgreSQL

[Duncan Temple Lang]

Joe Conway wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, here is Duncan's note from the top of the 
> REmbeddedPostgres INSTALL file:
> 
> **********************************************************************
> Note:
> 
>   Before compiling this package, you will _have to_ have the source for
>   Postgres. The regular header files that are installed when Postgres
>   is installed are not sufficient since this package does not use the
>   client interface, but the internal facilities of the Postgres server.
> 
> **********************************************************************
> 
> The same is true of PL/R.

This is something that should be addresed to the Postgres developers.
If they want any procedural languages to exist outside of the Postgres
source tree, they are going to have make the relevant header files
available in their development libraries.  It would be far more
advantageous to urge them to install the necessary header files rather
than dealing with each author.



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