Re: pg_upgrade + Ubuntu

On 7/10/15 2:20 PM, Mike Blackwell wrote:
> > postgres(at)ly19:~$ pg_config
> > You need to install postgresql-server-dev-X.Y for building a server-side
> > extension or libpq-dev for building a client-side application.
> >
> > Which is worse having to install yet another package or having a command
> > line option?
>
> It seems to me that this is a Debian packaging issue, not an upstream
> issue, isn't it? If you want to fix the problem in this way, then
> surely whatever package contains pg_upgrade should also contain
> pg_config.
>
>
> ​Indeed. An interesting packaging choice. I'd think it belongs to an admin
> category along with pg_upgrade, pg_dump, etc., rather than a development
> package. Surely it could be useful for admin scripts?

What makes it far worse is that pg_config isn't wrapped like the rest of
the tools are. So you can only have one "development" package installed
at once. We've pushed to change this to no effect. :/
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