Re: New 'pg' consolidated metacommand patch

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: New 'pg' consolidated metacommand patch
Date: 2020-05-27 08:13:19
Message-ID: CA+OCxoyMKk-xv+HV_0GHTtDOOmcxmwqKggMCtcobiD0_voJ7QQ@mail.gmail.com
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Hi

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 12:19 AM Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
wrote:

>
> I think it makes sense that packagers could put the LIBEXECDIR in the PATH
> so that 3rd-party scripts which call pg_ctl, initdb, etc. continue to
> work.

Having packages that futz with the PATH is generally a bad idea, especially
those that support side-by-side installations of different versions. None
of ours (EDBs) will be doing so.

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