Re: Allowing multiple versions of PG under NetBSD

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 03:09:59PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> >>I might take a look at the NetBSD package (I'm a developer) to see how
> >>hard it would be to allow multiple versions.  We do keep all the lib
> >>stuff in a separate directory so that part would be relatively simple.
> >>We just need to find all the binaries and make the names versioned and
> >>add a symlink to the user selected primary 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.....

Well, pg_upgrade uses a socket created in the current run directory, so
that should be fine.

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