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From: pgsql-bugs-ow...@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-bugs-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
Sent: vrijdag 1 mei 2009 23:57
To: Mark; pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #4787: Hardlink (ln) causes startup failure with
bizarre "timezone_abbreviations
Mark writes:
> I understand the rationale for relocatable packages. So, I guess hardlinks
> are out. But, barring hardlinks, perhaps, in the existence of a symlink, a
> simple 'readlink' function could be done to auto-correct PostgreSQL's
> base-location? Ala:
That's exactly what it already does,
On May 1, 12:41 pm, Kevin Field wrote:
> On Apr 26, 2:08 pm, dp...@pgadmin.org (Dave Page) wrote:
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> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Kevin Field
> > wrote:
> > > On Apr 24, 9:32 am, dp...@pgadmin.org (Dave Page) wrote:
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> > >> I don't know if there is any way we can solve it, except by reve
On May 2, 12:09 pm, Kevin Field wrote:
> On May 1, 12:41 pm, Kevin Field wrote:
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> > On Apr 26, 2:08 pm, dp...@pgadmin.org (Dave Page) wrote:
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> > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Kevin Field
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Apr 24, 9:32 am, dp...@pgadmin.org (Dave Page) wrote:
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> > > >> I don'
On May 2, 12:11 pm, Kevin Field wrote:
> On May 2, 12:09 pm, Kevin Field wrote:
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> > On May 1, 12:41 pm, Kevin Field wrote:
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> > > On Apr 26, 2:08 pm, dp...@pgadmin.org (Dave Page) wrote:
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> > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Kevin Field
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > On Apr 24, 9:32 am,
On Sat, 02 May 2009 14:47:48 GMT, Tom Lane wrote
> Mark writes:
> > I understand the rationale for relocatable packages. So,
> > I guess hardlinks are out. But, barring hardlinks,
> > perhaps, in the existence of a symlink, a simple 'readlink'
> > function could be done to auto-correct PostgreSQ
Mark writes:
> Interesting. Yet, as I reported earlier, whilst a symlink does seem to start
> the server, pg_ctl takes a long time to do so, and then report: "could not
> start server" anyway. But it actually *does* get started. So I figured maybe
> something was not entirely right with the sym
