On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:07:48AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> I suppose we could provide a build-time option to change this behavior.
it seems to me that it is going to be hard to reach a consensus by the
end of the commit fest, so I am marking this patch as returned with
feedback. Not sure if t
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:43 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 05:06:59PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> TBH I find that Homebrew example pretty odd. I would understand
>> installing each major release in a version directory, but putting
>> every point release in a different ver
Michael Paquier writes:
> The last complain on the matter I can find actually involves the same
> people as this thread :)
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/54DE457F.2090206%40gmx.net
> So the patch should be marked as rejected or at least returned with
> feedback?
IMO, changing this behav
On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 06:17:15PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I agree. My recollection is that we expended substantial sweat to make
> that type of setup work, and I do not think it was for idle reasons.
> The fact that the behavior is very old doesn't mean it was a bad choice.
> (Also, the fact tha
On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 05:06:59PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> TBH I find that Homebrew example pretty odd. I would understand
> installing each major release in a version directory, but putting
> every point release in a different versioned directory seems like a
> bad plan.
That's a project po
Robert Haas writes:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 9:34 PM, Peter Eisentraut
> wrote:
>> Except ... this doesn't actually work. find_my_exec() resolves symlinks
>> to find the actual program installation, and so for example the
>> installed initdb will look for postgres in src/bin/initdb/. I would
>
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 9:34 PM, Peter Eisentraut
wrote:
> Except ... this doesn't actually work. find_my_exec() resolves symlinks
> to find the actual program installation, and so for example the
> installed initdb will look for postgres in src/bin/initdb/. I would
> like to revert this behavio
