Victor Wagner <vitus@wagner.pp.ru> writes:
> I've discovered that in the branch REL_11_STABLE there is shell script
> src/bin/pg_upgrade/test.sh which doesn't work under Solaris 10.
> (it uses $(command) syntax with is not compatible with original
> Solaris /bin/sh)
OK ...
> It is quite easy to replace $() syntax with backticks. Backticks are
> not nestable and considered unsafe by modern shell scripting style
> guides, but they do work with older shells.
Please send a patch. Most of us do not have access to old shells
we could test this on. (The oldest machine I have, and it's old
enough to vote, does run that script ... I doubt very many other
developers have anything older.)
regards, tom lane
