| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>, "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 20:14:29 |
| Message-ID: | 20160729201429.GJ12810@momjian.us |
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On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 03:09:59PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> >>I might take a look at the NetBSD package (I'm a developer) to see how
> >>hard it would be to allow multiple versions. We do keep all the lib
> >>stuff in a separate directory so that part would be relatively simple.
> >>We just need to find all the binaries and make the names versioned and
> >>add a symlink to the user selected primary 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.....
Well, pg_upgrade uses a socket created in the current run directory, so
that should be fine.
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