libpq

Install command:
brew install libpq

Also known as: libpq@18

Postgres C API library

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq.html

License: PostgreSQL

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/libpq.json

Formula code: libpq.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate
tahoe
sequoia
sonoma
macOS on
Intel
sonoma
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable 18.6

Other versions:

libpq@17 17.11 Postgres C API library
libpq@16 16.15 Postgres C API library

Keg-only because it conflicts with PostgreSQL.

Depends on:

icu4c@78 78.3 C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization
krb5 1.22.2 Network authentication protocol
openssl@3 3.6.4 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
readline 8.3.3 Library for command-line editing

Depends on when building from source:

docbook 5.2.1 Standard XML representation system for technical documents
docbook-xsl 1.79.2 XML vocabulary to create presentation-neutral documents
pkgconf 3.0.7 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Uses from macOS: bison (build), flex (build), libxml2 (build), libxslt (build), curl

Binaries: clusterdb, createdb, createuser, dropdb, dropuser, ecpg, initdb, pg_amcheck, pg_archivecleanup, pg_basebackup, pg_checksums, pg_combinebackup, pg_config, pg_controldata, pg_createsubscriber, pg_ctl, pg_dump, pg_dumpall, pg_isready, pg_receivewal, pg_recvlogical, pg_resetwal, pg_restore, pg_rewind, pg_test_fsync, pg_test_timing, pg_upgrade, pg_verifybackup, pg_waldump, pg_walsummary, pgbench, psql, reindexdb, vacuumdb

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