Re: Allowing multiple versions of PG under NetBSD

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>, 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 20:22:21
Message-ID: 3464d332-2155-982f-9abb-334f8dc8cac5@aklaver.com
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On 07/29/2016 01:17 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> 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?
>
No:

https://wiki.debian.org/PostgreSql

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Adrian Klaver
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