Re: BUG #4763: postgres service unstable, even during install

On May 2, 12:09 pm, Kevin Field <kevinjamesfi(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On May 1, 12:41 pm, Kevin Field <kevinjamesfi(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > On Apr 26, 2:08 pm, dp(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)pgadmin(dot)org (Dave Page) wrote:
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> > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Kevin Field <kevinjamesfi(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > > On Apr 24, 9:32 am, dp(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)pgadmin(dot)org (Dave Page) wrote:
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> > > >> I don't know if there is any way we can solve it, except by reverting
> > > >> back to 5.8 or advising users to use only one version.
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> > > > I just had an idea--at least in the ActiveState distributions (not
> > > > sure about Strawberry or Vanilla) they include versioned-filename
> > > > binaries. So you can launch perl5.8.8.exe or perl5.10.0.exe and as
> > > > long as it's in the path you get the exact right one. (As I found out
> > > > when I went to try to figure out per-user paths, I somehow have both
> > > > versions in the universal path.) Would that help?
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> > > No, because we use the DLLs, not the .exe. But they do seem to be
> > > versioned anyway, so there must be something else going on :-(
>
> > :( Well on my end, I haven't been able to figure out how to get it to
> > see the right version. Do you know when the next beta or win32
> > installer build might be out so I can try again?
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> Through some testing today I determined:
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> 1) the installer decides on whether you have Perl / where it is before
> the first opportunity to click 'back', so, right at the beginning.
> 2) if I rename my Perl 5.8 directory--whether or not I rename my Perl
> 5.10 directory--the installer cannot find it and does not present pl/
> perl[u] as an option a few Next-clicks later.
> 3) if I rename my Perl 5.10 directory to where I had had my Perl 5.8
> directory, it's still not presented as an option
>
> So...what, is it insisting on perl58.dll at the beginning of the
> install and then perl510.dll when it goes to actually use it? Let's
> see...i'll rename things back (so it'll be an option), select the pl/
> perl options, and then rename the directories before clicking 'next'.
> Result: same errors when it goes to activate plperl and plperlu. I
> guess not.

This is actually a bit worse than I thought--I can't ditch 5.8, then.
I haven't tried a full uninstall of 5.8 and 5.10 and then installing
5.10 and then installing pgsql. I guess that's the next thing to try.