Re: .bash_profile replaced on software updates

From: Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
To: John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>,"pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: .bash_profile replaced on software updates
Date: 2016-05-21 15:35:50
Message-ID: 6F129D9D-6CD3-410F-96E0-E8C3AC236791@gunduz.org
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Hi John,

Can you please create a ticket at redmine.postgresql.org , under pgrpms project?

I will look at this soon.

Thanks!

Regards, Devrim

On May 21, 2016 5:09:13 PM GMT+03:00, John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com> wrote:
>I'm using CentOS and updating Postgres with yum. Whenever Postgres is
>updated (even minor updates) the .bash_profile is replaced with the
>lines below. I was happy to see the idea of the .psql_profile added
>fairly recently, but I don't understand why the last line is commented
>out. I still have to remember to uncomment the last line in this file
>every time I update Postgres which seems to defeat the purpose.
>
>The reason I need .pgsql_profile is that lots of useful Postgres
>executables (e.g. pg_archivecleanup) are not in the postgres path. Does
>everyone just use the full path name and change this in the
>configuration file for major updates?
>
>[ -f /etc/profile ] && source /etc/profile
>PGDATA=/var/lib/pgsql/9.5/data
>export PGDATA
># If you want to customize your settings,
># Use the file below. This is not overridden
># by the RPMS.
>#[ -f /var/lib/pgsql/.pgsql_profile ] && source
>/var/lib/pgsql/.pgsql_profile
>
>
>John DeSoi, Ph.D.
>
>
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