Re: Installation trouble -- oops

On Saturday 29 October 2005 22:33, Tom Lane wrote:
> Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com> 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