Re: [HACKERS] Scripts again

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Jan Wieck wrote:

> Make the whole thing configurable and anyone should be happy.
>
> --pg_admin_script_prefix={pg_|pg|*empty*|*whatever_you_prefer*}
> --pg_admin_script_install={yes|no}

Way initially I was suggesting
--enable-scripts=old|new|both|none (default new)
but Bruce found *that* too complicated.

I can see your point here, accessing different db installations, but I
think that is a highly specialized case (and you should be using psql
anyway, but that seems to be a culture issue).

But the scripts have no concept of default ports etc., that's in libpq. So
you can use pg_createdb for whatever your default install is, and
pg_createdb -p foo for your alternate installation. Or you could alias
this or something.

(Btw., anyone else think a /etc/services entry is better than a hardwired
default port, at least on the libpq side of things? Of course, I'm not
sure about Windows here.)

>
> It's not a joke. Someone might want to have his user account
> to have access to his production and test DB at the same
> time. So he could setup his PATH to both installations bin
> directories and configure the test DB to use a different
> default PGPORT and different script prefixes. Then
> pg_createdb would contact another postmaster than
> devel_createdb would do. Well, the installed binaries like
> psql would need some configurable prefix too then.
>
>
> Jan
>

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