Re: pg_dumpall and version confusion

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_dumpall and version confusion
Date: 2007-03-15 22:38:45
Message-ID: 20070315223844.GC9067@svana.org
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:19:31PM +0000, Dave Page wrote:
> Even if we went through the insane pain (for me at least) of maintaining
> multiple branches of the Windows build of PostgreSQL, *and* custom
> builds of the utilities built against a single libpq, we still couldn't
> ship a single set because pg_dumpall.v80.exe wouldn't find
> pg_dump.v80.exe without modification of the source.

Debian for years has been running a system where multiple versions can
be co-installed and if you call pg_dumpall it calls the right pg_dump,
you just have to indicate the cluster you want to operate on.

Porting it to Windows could be tricky though, given its use of symlinks
and wrapper scripts.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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