Re: BUG #4763: postgres service unstable, even during install

On Apr 26, 2:08 pm, dp(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)pgadmin(dot)org (Dave Page) wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Kevin Field <kevinjamesfi(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Apr 24, 9:32 am, dp(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)pgadmin(dot)org (Dave Page) wrote:
>
> >> I don't know if there is any way we can solve it, except by reverting
> >> back to 5.8 or advising users to use only one version.
>
> > I just had an idea--at least in the ActiveState distributions (not
> > sure about Strawberry or Vanilla) they include versioned-filename
> > binaries. So you can launch perl5.8.8.exe or perl5.10.0.exe and as
> > long as it's in the path you get the exact right one. (As I found out
> > when I went to try to figure out per-user paths, I somehow have both
> > versions in the universal path.) Would that help?
>
> No, because we use the DLLs, not the .exe. But they do seem to be
> versioned anyway, so there must be something else going on :-(

:( Well on my end, I haven't been able to figure out how to get it to
see the right version. Do you know when the next beta or win32
installer build might be out so I can try again?