If I want to create a postgres database on multiple machines, is the practice of tarring or zipping up binaries compiled on one machine and untarring them on another, and using the binaries (initdb etc) acceptable?. This removes the need for having a compiler and environment on the target machine, or is it necessary always to have such an environment on any machine you intend to use postgres on? Postgres seems to have enough environment options to allow this to work, overriding the original library locations and paths etc from the original machine on which postgres was compiled.
Does anyone see a problem with this approach?
Possibly hundreds. You clearly can't move from Sun/SPARC to BSD/x86 to Linux/PPC. What platform are you interested in and why isn't there a package manager for it?
-- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
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