Re: drop postmaster symlink

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: drop postmaster symlink
Date: 2022-11-23 20:48:04
Message-ID: 3740631.1669236484@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2022-11-23 10:07:49 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> On the whole, is it really that hard to add the symlink to the meson build?

> No. Meson has a builtin command for it, just not in the meson version we're
> currently requiring. We can create the symlink ourselves instead. The problem
> is just detecting systems where we can't symlink and what to fall back to
> there.

This isn't a hill I want to die on, either way. But "it's a bit
more complicated in meson" seems like a poor reason for changing
the user-visible installed fileset.

regards, tom lane

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