On Saturday 29 October 2005 22:33, Tom Lane wrote: > Steve Crawford <scrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Is postgresql (or some parts thereof) now using relative pathing > > and has that behavior changed? > > As of 8.0 we attempt to determine the libdir, sharedir etc as > relative to the location of the executable. So you can't just "cp" > the PG executables to somewhere else without also copying the > associated support files into parallel directories. I believe > symlinking the executables will work fine though (ie, we look > through the symlink before doing the relative-path calculation). Yes, the symlinking did appear to work fine. Thanks for the confirmation that it is an acceptable option. Cheers, Steve ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
