| From: | Enver ALTIN <ealtin(at)parkyeri(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Devrim Gunduz <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Nicolai Tufar <ntufar(at)gmail(dot)com>, Burcu Guzel <burcu(dot)guzel(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: pgNixInstaller: Making PostgreSQL relocatable |
| Date: | 2006-03-23 05:10:10 |
| Message-ID: | 44222DB2.9060803@parkyeri.com |
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Hi Tom,
Tom Lane wrote:
> Enver ALTIN <ealtin(at)parkyeri(dot)com> writes:
>> In order to achieve this *properly*, I intend to make PostgreSQL
>> relocatable, that is, PostgreSQL should be able to run if you `copy`
>> it's binaries somewhere else -- no matter where you `./configure
>> --prefix`ed it. I took a very quick look at some parts of the codebase
>> and it seems doable to me.
>
> s/doable/already done/, no?
I did a Google search on "relocatable PostgreSQL" and the first
result[1] said it's already done. Apparently it didn't work for me on
Solaris 8 (linking problems). I'll be looking at it sometime today.
Thanks for your immediate response :)
[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html
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Enver
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