Re: Moving/Using Postgres Binaries on multiple machines

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Francis Reed wrote:
>
>
>>We tested the principle with postgres 7.4.6 but found a what we
>>believe is a compile time dependancy in create_conversion.sql where
>>$libdir is not being resolved properly during the initdb process on
>>the second machine. The usual environment variables don't seem to
>>help (LD_LIBRARY_PATH; PATH; PGLIB etc). Anyone come across that?
>>
>>
>
>Moving the installation to a different path is not supported for
>permanent use before 8.0. You better try to install in the same
>directory layout on all machines where you want to deploy.
>
>
You can also use links, which is what we do. Mammoth Reokicator
automaticaly install in /usr/local/pgsql but we often put it
in /opt and we just link /usr/local/pgsql back.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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