Re: Fixed directory locations in installs

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fixed directory locations in installs
Date: 2004-05-02 13:08:10
Message-ID: 200405021508.10567.peter_e@gmx.net
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Also, Win32 installs are going to want to be more directory
> independent than Unix.

Why?

> Because Win32 can probe for the location of the binary, it seems it
> should check to see if it can find libdir and sharedir own its own
> and set those GUC values accordingly as part of initdb.

This is just going to open up the possibility of silently finding the
wrong files.

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