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

On Apr 23, 2:25 pm, dp(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)pgadmin(dot)org (Dave Page) wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Kevin Field <kevinjamesfi(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Apr 23, 12:13 pm, dp(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)pgadmin(dot)org (Dave Page) wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Kevin Field <kevinjamesfi(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> > Is it possible it's looking for Perl in the wrong place? (Hence the
> >> > "No such file..." error that somehow makes it back to my Perl script?)
>
> >> What version of perl do you have?
>
> > I have 5.8.8 in C:\Perl and 5.10.0 in C:\Perl5.10
>
> > But no problems with 2009-03-24...aren't both that and 8.4-beta1
> > linked against 5.8.8?
>
> The community installer for beta 1 uses Perl 5.10. The one-click uses
> 5.8 in beta 1 and earlier snapshots. Both will use 5.10 for beta 2 (as
> well as Python 2.6 and TCL 8.5).
>
> I'm wondering if it's barfing because it's finding the wrong version
> when it tries to install pl/perl. That would also explain a report I
> saw of the installer failing with a similar error.

Good to know. And yay for 5.10! That's a welcome upgrade.

So I need to keep my 5.8 around currently for other uses--how can I
hint at the correct location for it?