meson_options.txt

# Copyright (c) 2022-2025, PostgreSQL Global Development Group

# Data layout influencing options

option('blocksize', type: 'combo',
  choices: ['1', '2', '4', '8', '16', '32'],
  value: '8',
  description: 'Relation block size, in kilobytes')

option('wal_blocksize', type: 'combo',
  choices: ['1', '2', '4', '8', '16', '32', '64'],
  value: '8',
  description: 'WAL block size, in kilobytes')

option('segsize', type: 'integer', value: 1,
  description: 'Segment size, in gigabytes')

option('segsize_blocks', type: 'integer', value: 0,
  description: 'Segment size, in blocks')


# Miscellaneous options

option('krb_srvnam', type: 'string', value: 'postgres',
  description: 'Default Kerberos service principal for GSSAPI')

option('system_tzdata', type: 'string', value: '',
  description: 'Use system time zone data in specified directory')


# Defaults

option('pgport', type: 'integer', value: 5432,
  min: 1, max: 65535,
  description: 'Default port number for server and clients')


# Developer options

option('cassert', type: 'boolean', value: false,
  description: 'Enable assertion checks (for debugging)')

option('tap_tests', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Enable TAP tests')

option('injection_points', type: 'boolean', value: false,
  description: 'Enable injection points')

option('PG_TEST_EXTRA', type: 'string', value: '',
  description: 'Enable selected extra tests. Overridden by PG_TEST_EXTRA environment variable.')

option('PG_GIT_REVISION', type: 'string', value: 'HEAD',
  description: 'git revision to be packaged by pgdist target')


# Compilation options

option('extra_include_dirs', type: 'array', value: [],
  description: 'Non-default directories to be searched for headers')

option('extra_lib_dirs', type: 'array', value: [],
  description: 'Non-default directories to be searched for libs')

option('extra_version', type: 'string', value: '',
  description: 'Append STRING to the PostgreSQL version number')

option('darwin_sysroot', type: 'string', value: '',
  description: 'Select a non-default sysroot path')

option('rpath', type: 'boolean', value: true,
  description: 'Embed shared library search path in executables')


# External dependencies

option('bonjour', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Bonjour support')

option('bsd_auth', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'BSD Authentication support')

option('docs', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Documentation in HTML and man page format')

option('docs_pdf', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Documentation in PDF format')

option('docs_html_style', type: 'combo', choices: ['simple', 'website'],
  description: 'CSS stylesheet for HTML documentation')

option('dtrace', type: 'feature', value: 'disabled',
  description: 'DTrace support')

option('gssapi', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'GSSAPI support')

option('icu', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'ICU support')

option('ldap', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'LDAP support')

option('libcurl', type : 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'libcurl support')

option('libedit_preferred', type: 'boolean', value: false,
  description: 'Prefer BSD Libedit over GNU Readline')

option('liburing', type : 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'io_uring support, for asynchronous I/O')

option('libxml', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'XML support')

option('libxslt', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'XSLT support in contrib/xml2')

option('llvm', type: 'feature', value: 'disabled',
  description: 'LLVM support')

option('lz4', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'LZ4 support')

option('nls', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Native language support')

option('pam', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'PAM support')

option('plperl', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Build Perl modules (PL/Perl)')

option('plpython', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Build Python modules (PL/Python)')

option('pltcl', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Build with Tcl support (PL/Tcl)')

option('tcl_version', type: 'string', value: 'tcl',
  description: 'Tcl version')

option('readline', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Use GNU Readline or BSD Libedit for editing')

option('selinux', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'SELinux support')

option('ssl', type: 'combo', choices: ['auto', 'none', 'openssl'],
  value: 'auto',
  description: 'Use LIB for SSL/TLS support (openssl)')

option('systemd', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'systemd support')

option('uuid', type: 'combo', choices: ['none', 'bsd', 'e2fs', 'ossp'],
  value: 'none',
  description: 'Use LIB for contrib/uuid-ossp support')

option('zlib', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Enable zlib')

option('zstd', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Enable zstd')


# Programs

option('BISON', type: 'array', value: ['bison', 'win_bison'],
  description: 'Path to bison binary')

option('DTRACE', type: 'string', value: 'dtrace',
  description: 'Path to dtrace binary')

option('FLEX', type: 'array', value: ['flex', 'win_flex'],
  description: 'Path to flex binary')

option('FOP', type: 'string', value: 'fop',
  description: 'Path to fop binary')

option('GZIP', type: 'string', value: 'gzip',
  description: 'Path to gzip binary')

option('LZ4', type: 'string', value: 'lz4',
  description: 'Path to lz4 binary')

option('OPENSSL', type: 'string', value: 'openssl',
  description: 'Path to openssl binary')

option('PERL', type: 'string', value: 'perl',
  description: 'Path to perl binary')

option('PROVE', type: 'string', value: 'prove',
  description: 'Path to prove binary')

option('PYTHON', type: 'array', value: ['python3', 'python'],
  description: 'Path to python binary')

option('SED', type: 'string', value: 'gsed',
  description: 'Path to sed binary')

option('STRIP', type: 'string', value: 'strip',
  description: 'Path to strip binary, used for PGXS emulation')

option('TAR', type: 'string', value: 'tar',
  description: 'Path to tar binary')

option('XMLLINT', type: 'string', value: 'xmllint',
  description: 'Path to xmllint binary')

option('XSLTPROC', type: 'string', value: 'xsltproc',
  description: 'Path to xsltproc binary')

option('ZSTD', type: 'string', value: 'zstd',
  description: 'Path to zstd binary')

option('ZIC', type: 'string', value: 'zic',
  description: 'Path to zic binary, when cross-compiling')