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
tahoe
sequoia
sonoma
macOS on
Intel
sonoma
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable 18.4

Other versions:

libpq@17 17.10 Postgres C API library
libpq@16 16.14 Postgres C API library

Keg-only

Depends on:

icu4c@78 78.3 C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization
krb5 1.22.2 Network authentication protocol
openssl@3 3.6.3 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 3.0.5 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

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