On Friday 06 February 2004 15:01, Wei Wang wrote:
> hi,
>
> I just took over a project done by somebody else of some C extension of
> Postgresql 7.1.3. And now I have to port it to pl/pgsql. The guy who
> developed it said he didn't get it running under 7.2 for some reason. And I
> suspect it might not run properly under 7.4.1. Since I only have one
> machine so I really hope that I could run 7.1.3 and 7.4.1 on the same
> machine and run his code on 7.1.3 while developing pl/pgsql on 7.4.1. Now
> can anyone give a hand on whether this can be done, and if so, can you give
> me a little direction on how to do this?
Build both from source.
Set the install directories for each differently (/usr/local/pg713/ or
something)
Set the ports for both differently (can't both use 5432 at the same time)
Initialise both to use different PGDATA directories
Alter startup scripts to start both separately, or start them manually.
That should do it - worth checking the archives since other people have done
this.
Hmm - do a search for Debian on the list archives (-hackers list IIRC) too. I
think the new packaging scheme there does the above out of the box - you
could just copy what it does.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
