Re: Antw: Re: Patch for NetWare support

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
Cc: Ulrich Neumann <U_Neumann(at)gne(dot)de>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Antw: Re: Patch for NetWare support
Date: 2002-08-13 16:54:22
Message-ID: 27187.1029257662@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:16:35AM +0200, Ulrich Neumann wrote:
>> At the moment there isn't ln at all. Just making a copy of the binary
>> is a problem because the binary name is compiled in the binary
>> and if you use srgc[0] NetWare reports "postgres" instead of
>> "postmaster".

> O.K., that just means that instead of 'cp' it'll nead an ugly hack to the
> Makefiles that links a seperate executable with the second name. That's
> better than an ugly hack in the mainline executable code, I suppose.

Should we even do that? What is srgc[0], and why should we care whether
it can tell the difference between postgres and postmaster?

regards, tom lane

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