Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of vie sep 24 10:55:58 -0400 2010: > On fre, 2010-09-24 at 11:38 +0100, Dave Page wrote: > > I didn't know that existed - thanks. Unfortunately the first box I > > tried it on didn't have it, but that's quite old and not a supported > > platform anyway. if it does exist on everything we support, then that > > could work. > > It's tempting, but I would caution against that. The installer might > work just fine (or 95% fine) on unsupported platforms, but if you just > shut people out you won't know. Of course you might want to print a > *warning* based on lsb_release.
I think the logic is if lsb_release exists on all supported platforms, then use it to determine whether this is a supported platform or not. If it doesn't exist, then you know it's not a supported platform in the first place. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
