pgbench in wrong package?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: pgsql-pkg-debian(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgbench in wrong package?
Date: 2023-11-23 20:24:07
Message-ID: f20a7b11-2dfc-492d-b529-1e47fbb20448@eisentraut.org
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pgbench is in the postgresql-client-common package [0], but the actual
per-version binaries are in the server package, e.g., postgresql-16 [1].
If you try to call pgbench without installing the server package, it
tells you

Error: You must install at least one postgresql-client-<version> package

but that is wrong advice in this situation.

Is there are reason for this arrangement?

(The same confusion applies to vacuumlo.)

[0]:
https://packages.debian.org/trixie/all/postgresql-client-common/filelist
[1]: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/amd64/postgresql-16/filelist

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