Re: pg_upgrade + Ubuntu

On 7/10/15 2:20 PM, Mike Blackwell wrote:
>     > postgres@ly19:~$ pg_config
>     > You need to install postgresql-server-dev-X.Y for building a server-side
>     > extension or libpq-dev for building a client-side application.
>     >
>     > Which is worse having to install yet another package or having a command
>     > line option?
>
>     It seems to me that this is a Debian packaging issue, not an upstream
>     issue, isn't it?  If you want to fix the problem in this way, then
>     surely whatever package contains pg_upgrade should also contain
>     pg_config.
>
>
> ​Indeed.  An interesting packaging choice.  I'd think it belongs to an admin
> category along with pg_upgrade, pg_dump, etc., rather than a development
> package.  Surely it could be useful for admin scripts?

What makes it far worse is that pg_config isn't wrapped like the rest of 
the tools are. So you can only have one "development" package installed 
at once. We've pushed to change this to no effect. :/
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