Re: contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions
Date: 2004-04-22 04:56:15
Message-ID: 20040422045615.GA8531@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:29:36AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I am thinking they could untar into a directory under pgsgl/ or have a
> way to point to a 'configure'-run source tree and pull values from
> there.
>
> If you include pg_config.h, or use Makefile.global, you have almost
> everything you need to compile your own, including flags, configure
> checks, and the location of the installation directory.

That would work only if they compiled the source themselves, as opposed
to using a binary package (which is very common). I'm not sure if
installing the postgresql-dev or postgresql-devel package would be
enough.

If not, maybe pg_config could provide all the necessary info ...

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