Re: Allowing multiple versions of PG under NetBSD

From: "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Maeldron T(dot)" <maeldron(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Allowing multiple versions of PG under NetBSD
Date: 2016-07-29 20:17:08
Message-ID: 20160729161708.5b6e89cc@imp
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:09:59 -0500
Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> wrote:
> >> version to the bare version of the binary name. Example:
> >> - psql.8.3
> >> - psql.9.1
> >> - psql.9.3
> >> - psql ==> psql.9.3
> >>
> >> Other than linking to the correct library can you think of any
> >> other issues with this?
> >
> > Data Directory naming, as well as keeping the init-scripts straight.
> >
> And who gets 5432, and Unix socket naming, it starts to get messy.....

I assume that anyone running multiple versions knows how to specify all
that stuff when initializing and starting the different servers.

From the comments I saw it looked to me like other systems (Linux?) had
already solved this problem. Was I wrong?

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