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

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Kevin Field <kevinjamesfield(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 :-(

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Dave Page
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