Re: pgsql: Add TAP test to automate the equivalent of check_guc

Re: Tom Lane
> Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> writes:
> > I think the "bug" here is that vanilla PG doesn't support installing
> > in FHS locations with /usr/lib and /usr/share split, hence the Debian
> > patch.
>
> I'm confused by this statement. An out-of-the-box installation
> produces trees under $PREFIX/lib and $PREFIX/share. What about
> that is not FHS compliant? And couldn't you fix it using the
> installation fine-tuning switches that configure already provides?

To support multiple major versions in parallel, we need
/usr/lib/postgresql/NN/lib and /usr/share/postgresql/NN, so it's not a
single $PREFIX. But you are correct, and ./configure supports that.

I was confusing that with this: The problem that led to the pg_config
patch years ago was that we have a /usr/bin/pg_config in
(non-major-version-dependant) libpq-dev, and
/usr/lib/postgresql/NN/bin/pg_config in the individual
postgresql-server-dev-NN packages, and iirc the /usr/bin version
didn't particularly like the other binaries being in
/usr/lib/postgresql/NN/bin/.

I guess it's time to revisit that problem now and see if it can be
solved more pretty today on our side.

Sorry for the rumbling,
Christoph