Description of problem: Postfix provides support for the MySQL database. It would be nice if it supported both MySQL and Postgresql using dynamically loadable modules, packaged separately. The Debian project ships a patch that provides this feature. See http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=postfix-devel&a=2007-03&m=3406347. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): postfix-2.5.1-2.fc9.ppc How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: % ldd /usr/sbin/postfix Actual results: [...] libmysqlclient.so.15 => /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15 (0x1fd85000) [...] Expected results: Core binaries are not linked against MySQL. MySQL support could be implemented in a loadable module that is packaged separately. Additional info:
While Michael's proposal is more elegant, I offer a (obvious) second approach: provide two packages: postfix-mysql and postfix-pqsql. It is VERY frustrating to have absolutely no postgresql support for postfix under fedora (forcing us to build from source).
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AFAIK this feature got upstreamed and we already have it in Fedora, thus closing.