| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_migrator to /contrib in a later 9.0 beta |
| Date: | 2010-05-02 10:22:47 |
| Message-ID: | 1272795767.1549.4.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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On lör, 2010-05-01 at 17:26 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I am unclear why it would be in /bin if it requires 15 steps to run
> and is run only once by only some users. It seems natural
> for /contrib, like pgcrypto.
Well, pg_resetxlog is also rarely run by most users. It started in
contrib but was later moved to bin in order to show that it is fully
supported.
Also, I think the 15 steps are a bit inflated. Several of those steps
are about building and installing various pieces of software. If you
count that way, using PostgreSQL itself might also require about 12
steps. In a packaged environment that allows side-by-side installation
of major versions (such as Debian or Windows), you need about 4 or 5
manual steps, and with a small script layer you need only 1 or 0.
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