Re: Allowing multiple versions of PG under NetBSD

On 2016-07-29 15:17, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:09:59 -0500
> Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> wrote:
>> >> 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.....
>
> I assume that anyone running multiple versions knows how to specify all
> that stuff when initializing and starting the different servers.
>
> From the comments I saw it looked to me like other systems (Linux?) had
> already solved this problem.  Was I wrong?

They have, we (*BSD) just need to make sure we document it, and we make
damn
sure we don't break existing folks.

I'm willing to help on the FreeBSD side.

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