Re: pg_upgrade's bindir options could be optional

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On l?r, 2011-05-07 at 13:33 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Another
> > interesting approach would be to assume the /bin directory is ../bin
> > from the data directory. That would work for some installs,
> > particularly for people moving things around, but again, it is worth
> > trying to default something that isn't going to be 100% right?
>
> In practice, there are the two main camps of parallel installation and
> move old installation out of the way. They are probably both pretty big
> (Debias camp 1, Red Hat is camp 2, for a start). So it would be worth
> doing something to help one camp or the other.
>
> On that other hand, we don't have any data on how many people have the
> bindir at ../bin from the data directory, or whether it would be the old
> or the new bindir.

Yes, it was too complex which is why I made it explicit.

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