Re: BUG #14117: psql and pg_dump commands should use ENV perl

pg_dump and psql are perl programs.

They were installed from http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/

Who maintains apt.postgresql.org?

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> On 2016-04-27 18:27:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > jsteffee(at)bepress(dot)com writes:
> > > We have multiple systems which use non-system perl for various tasks,
> > > including perl scripts which test some pg_dump commands. These break
> because
> > > psql and pg_dump are hard-coded with #!/usr/bin/perl instead of
> > > #!/usr/bin/env perl. The PERL5LIB is set up with libraries based on
> the perl
> > > called with ENV, where /usr/bin/perl has libraries compiled
> differently.
> >
> > Uh, what? Neither of those programs use perl at all.
> >
> > We do have hard-wired uses of /usr/bin/perl in some scripts that might
> get
> > used at build time, but those shouldn't really be an issue, especially
> not
> > if you're using prebuilt packages, or even just building from a tarball.
>
> I guess the OP is using the debian/ubuntu packages which have a wrapper
> around most postgres binariers which tries to use the correct version of
> the binary.
>
> Joe, you might have more success opening a bug-report against either
> Debian's
> or Ubuntu's packages.
>
> Andres
>

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Joe Steffee
Linux Systems Administrator
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