Re: Is this fixable?

On 17. Oktober 2014 09:43:06 GMT+01:00, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
>wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> On current Ubuntu/Debian, if you try to use "pg_ctl" instead of
>> "pg_ctlcluster", you get this message:
>
>How do you define "current Ubuntu/Debian"? Because I don't get that on
>debian stable for example. I do get it on current Ubuntu LTS (trusty).
>
>
>> The program 'pg_ctl' is currently not installed. To run 'pg_ctl'
>please
>> ask your administrator to install the package 'postgres-xc'
>>
>> I know where that's coming from, but to date I've witnessed four
>> postgres beginners then trying to install postgres-xc and really
>messing
>> up their servers.  Is there any possible way to fix the command
>database
>> so that users don't get that error message?
>
>That does indeed sound like a packaging issue with postgres-xc. It
>shouldn't expose a non-versioned pg_ctl, the same way that regular
>PostgreSQL doesn't.

Ubuntu has some package like command-not-found preinstalled which Debian hasn't. I have no clue how to "tune" that
thing,though.