Re: Relocatable installs

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Ah, got it. Makes sense. We do searches for finding our own path, but
> > you can argue that this predictable --- we know we are running so the
> > binary must be somewhere. :-) However, the version checking we do now
> > is a little non-predictable because if we find a binary of the wrong
> > version, we keep looking in the path.
>
> Hm? I see no version checks in FindExec. It looks to me like the code
> is just trying to ensure that it finds the same file that the shell
> would have found.

I thought it was in ValidateBinary, but now I don't see it. I must have
gotten it confused by pg_dumpall. And I see now that initdb only checks
the version and exits if it is wrong. It does not keep trying the path.

OK, we are better than I thought. :-)

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