Re: moving from contrib to bin

On 2014-12-12 15:11:01 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 12/12/2014 03:07 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >On 12/9/14 4:10 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >>Maybe it makes sense to have a distinction between client programs and
> >>server programs.  Can we have src/sbin/ and move stuff that involves the
> >>server side in there?  I think that'd be pg_xlogdump, pg_archivecleanup,
> >>pg_upgrade, pg_test_timing, pg_test_fsync.  (If we were feeling bold we
> >>could also move pg_resetxlog, pg_controldata and initdb there.)
> >
> >I was thinking about that.  What do others think?
> 
> Sounds good. We already separate server and client programs in the docs, and
> packagers put them in different packages too. This should make packagers'
> life a little bit easier in the long run.

Wouldn't a make install-server/client targets or something similar
actually achieve the same thing? Seems simpler to maintain to me.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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