From: | Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> |
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To: | "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Maeldron T(dot)" <maeldron(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Allowing multiple versions of PG under NetBSD |
Date: | 2016-07-29 20:22:29 |
Message-ID: | 0d7b6d6d39f77fe97d33f50e186a9c8f@thebighonker.lerctr.org |
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On 2016-07-29 15:17, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:09:59 -0500
> Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> wrote:
>> >> version to the bare version of the binary name. Example:
>> >> - psql.8.3
>> >> - psql.9.1
>> >> - psql.9.3
>> >> - psql ==> psql.9.3
>> >>
>> >> Other than linking to the correct library can you think of any
>> >> other issues with this?
>> >
>> > Data Directory naming, as well as keeping the init-scripts straight.
>> >
>> And who gets 5432, and Unix socket naming, it starts to get messy.....
>
> I assume that anyone running multiple versions knows how to specify all
> that stuff when initializing and starting the different servers.
>
> From the comments I saw it looked to me like other systems (Linux?) had
> already solved this problem. Was I wrong?
They have, we (*BSD) just need to make sure we document it, and we make
damn
sure we don't break existing folks.
I'm willing to help on the FreeBSD side.
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