| From: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
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| To: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | jm(dot)poure(at)freesurf(dot)fr, mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: OK, lets talk portability. |
| Date: | 2002-05-09 10:03:20 |
| Message-ID: | 200205090603.20557.lamar.owen@wgcr.org |
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On Thursday 09 May 2002 04:56 am, Hannu Krosing wrote:
[snip other good ideas....]
> And instead of initdb we could just install ready-made $PGSQL/data
> directory.
From experience with the RPMset I can tell you that this is a bad idea, and it
comes down to one word:
upgrades.
Now if the installation location is _versioned_ we might can talk of a
pre-populated $PGDATA. I'm taking a really hard look right now at versioned
installation locations for the RPMset -- you can then have more than one
version installed at a time, and even running at one time if you're careful.
I haven't implemented it yet, but I am taking a long hard look at what I
would have to do in order to make it work.
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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