Re: Moving/Using Postgres Binaries on multiple machines

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Francis Reed <freed(at)iel(dot)ie>
Cc: "'Martijn van Oosterhout'" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, "'pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Moving/Using Postgres Binaries on multiple machines
Date: 2004-11-24 17:03:24
Message-ID: 10437.1101315804@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Francis Reed <freed(at)iel(dot)ie> writes:
> We tested the principle with postgres 7.4.6 but found a what we believe is a
> compile time dependancy in create_conversion.sql where $libdir is not being
> resolved properly during the initdb process on the second machine.

We only started supporting the idea of a relocatable installation for
8.0; in prior versions you can't just arbitrarily install the files
to a different path than what you said at configure time. Even in 8.0
the files have to remain in the same relative locations.

regards, tom lane

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