| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: could not find /usr/local/timezone |
| Date: | 2004-11-05 00:33:08 |
| Message-ID: | 200411050033.iA50X8K12154@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Is this an open 8.0 item?
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > This is fundamentally broken by the changes to support relocatable
> > installs: PG now attempts to find the support files by relative paths
> > from the place where the executable was found.
>
> I recall that on some systems the "normal" method of installation is
> installing everything in private directory trees and then symlinking
> the relevant parts to shared locations. Also, sites using AFS file
> systems do things of that kind. I hope these systems aren't going to
> be broken completely.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut
> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
>
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