Re: moving an installation

I built tip, and the moveable installation does indeed appear to work: I
did an initdb,createlang, and then paddled around with psql a bit, but
nothing more serious than that yet.

Is the current tip destined for a 7.4.x, or has 7.4.x been branched?
Will it be in 7.5?

Thanks for the tip tip ;-)

- DAP

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:31 PM
To: Peter Eisentraut
Cc: David Parker; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] moving an installation

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> David Parker wrote:
>> I need to be able to build postgres (7.4.3) with a given --prefix,
>> but then pack up the installation directory and deploy it in another
>> directory (as part of a product install, for instance).

> This doesn't work.

Not at the moment anyway. Bruce and some other people did some work
last month towards supporting relocatable installs --- David, would you
like to experiment with CVS tip and see if it works for you?

regards, tom lane

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