On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 03:09:59PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: > >>I might take a look at the NetBSD package (I'm a developer) to see how > >>hard it would be to allow multiple versions. We do keep all the lib > >>stuff in a separate directory so that part would be relatively simple. > >>We just need to find all the binaries and make the names versioned and > >>add a symlink to the user selected primary version to the bare version > >>of the binary name. Example: > >> - psql.8.3 > >> - psql.9.1 > >> - psql.9.3 > >> - psql ==> psql.9.3 > >> > >>Other than linking to the correct library can you think of any other > >>issues with this? > > > >Data Directory naming, as well as keeping the init-scripts straight. > > > And who gets 5432, and Unix socket naming, it starts to get messy..... Well, pg_upgrade uses a socket created in the current run directory, so that should be fine. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + As you are, so once was I. As I am, so you will be. + + Ancient Roman grave inscription + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
