You're right. /usr/bin/psql is a wrapper for the actual psql command being
called. You can close this bug.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Joe Steffee <jsteffee@bepress.com> wrote:
> pg_dump and psql are perl programs.
>
> They were installed from http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/
>
> Who maintains apt.postgresql.org?
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
>> On 2016-04-27 18:27:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> > jsteffee@bepress.com writes:
>> > > We have multiple systems which use non-system perl for various tasks,
>> > > including perl scripts which test some pg_dump commands. These break
>> because
>> > > psql and pg_dump are hard-coded with #!/usr/bin/perl instead of
>> > > #!/usr/bin/env perl. The PERL5LIB is set up with libraries based on
>> the perl
>> > > called with ENV, where /usr/bin/perl has libraries compiled
>> differently.
>> >
>> > Uh, what? Neither of those programs use perl at all.
>> >
>> > We do have hard-wired uses of /usr/bin/perl in some scripts that might
>> get
>> > used at build time, but those shouldn't really be an issue, especially
>> not
>> > if you're using prebuilt packages, or even just building from a tarball.
>>
>> I guess the OP is using the debian/ubuntu packages which have a wrapper
>> around most postgres binariers which tries to use the correct version of
>> the binary.
>>
>> Joe, you might have more success opening a bug-report against either
>> Debian's
>> or Ubuntu's packages.
>>
>> Andres
>>
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