| From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jerry Richards <jerry(dot)richards(at)teotech(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Why Hard-Coded Version 9.1 In Names? |
| Date: | 2012-01-30 22:45:27 |
| Message-ID: | CAOR=d=115E9skZQRv7edS3W+_uJcaW5V+rGJ7z3T-Fn_6Rxo2A@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Jerry Richards
<jerry(dot)richards(at)teotech(dot)com> wrote:
> I just installed postgreSQL 9.1 and noticed it hard-codes the folder
> /var/lib/pgsql/9.1 and it hard-codes the service name to be postgresql91.
> My previous version of 8.4.4 uses the generic folder /var/lib/pgsql/data and
> the generic service name postgresql. This causes a problem for me because I
> have a lot of tools and software that uses the old path and name.
>
>
>
> Why is the hard-coded version included in the naming? Is there some install
> method to keep it using the generic names?
It's to allow > 1 version to be installed at once.
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