Re: moving from contrib to bin

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 03:13:44PM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 12/12/2014 03:11 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >On 12/12/2014 03:07 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >>On 12/9/14 4:10 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >>>Maybe it makes sense to have a distinction between client programs and
> >>>server programs. Can we have src/sbin/ and move stuff that involves the
> >>>server side in there? I think that'd be pg_xlogdump, pg_archivecleanup,
> >>>pg_upgrade, pg_test_timing, pg_test_fsync. (If we were feeling bold we
> >>>could also move pg_resetxlog, pg_controldata and initdb there.)
> >>
> >>I was thinking about that. What do others think?
> >
> >Sounds good. We already separate server and client programs in the docs,
> >and packagers put them in different packages too. This should make
> >packagers' life a little bit easier in the long run.
>
> src/sbin might not be a good name for the directory, though. We're
> not going to install the programs in /usr/sbin, are we? Maybe
> src/server-bin and src/client-bin.

I am confused by the above because you are mixing /src and /bin. If we
install the binaries in new directories, that is going to require
multiple adjustments to $PATH --- that doesn't seem like a win, and we
only have 25 binaries in pgsql/bin now (my Debian /usr/bin has 2306
binaries). I assume I am misunderstanding something.

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