On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:05:00AM +0200, Hannes Dorbath wrote: > Isn't it funny that stupid wrapper scripts create confusion instead of > making things easier for users. > > Running 2 PG instances is a trivial thing to do. It requires a quick > look at the PostgreSQL documentation to find out that: > > - The port is defined in postgresql.conf > - pg_ctl -D defines what cluster to work on > - The switch for the port in psql is -p That doesn't work if you want to have multiple versions of psql, initdb, pg_dump, or pg_restore. PostgreSQL doesn't support multiple parallel installations of different versions in a transparent way. > But instead people spend their time on going out and ask how to use some > poor wrappers, their distribution provides. Probably this has costed > them more time than a look in the PG documentation. Wrappers aren't great, but they're a necessity if you want to be able to run multiple versions of postgres simultaneously in a reasonably transparent way. At least now the package management system can let you install a new version, upgrade an old cluster to a new version and when the upgrade is complete, uninstall the old one. > Anyway, I guess wrappers are a must have like 3D desktops these days. You have an better alternative for handling multiple versions? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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