Re: Why not install pgstattuple by default?

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 21:19, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
>
> On 05/06/2011 03:14 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Greg Smith<greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>  wrote:
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>>> Christopher Browne wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm getting "paper cuts" quite a bit these days over the differences
>>>> between what different packaging systems decide to install.  The one
>>>> *I* get notably bit on, of late, is that I have written code that
>>>> expects to have pg_config to do some degree of self-discovery, only to
>>>> find production folk complaining that they only have "psql" available
>>>> in their environment.
>>>
>>> Given the other improvements in being able to build extensions in 9.1, we
>>> really should push packagers to move pg_config from the PostgreSQL
>>> development package into the main one starting in that version.  I've
>>> gotten
>>> bit by this plenty of times.
>>
>> I'm agreeable to that, in general.
>>
>> If there's a "server" package and a "client" package, it likely only
>> fits with the "server" package.  On a host where only the "client" is
>> installed, they won't be able to install extensions, so it's pretty
>> futile to have it there.
>
> I don't agree. It can be useful even there, to see how the libraries are
> configured, for example. I'd be inclined to bundle it with postgresql-libs
> or the moral equivalent.

+1.

And it's not like it wastes huge amount of space...

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