Re: moving from contrib to bin - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: moving from contrib to bin
Date
Msg-id 20141212160053.GW1768@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: moving from contrib to bin  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: moving from contrib to bin  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Re: moving from contrib to bin  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> writes:
> > On 12/12/2014 03:07 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> On 12/9/14 4:10 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >>> Maybe it makes sense to have a distinction between client programs and
> >>> server programs.  Can we have src/sbin/ and move stuff that involves the
> >>> server side in there?  I think that'd be pg_xlogdump, pg_archivecleanup,
> >>> pg_upgrade, pg_test_timing, pg_test_fsync.  (If we were feeling bold we
> >>> could also move pg_resetxlog, pg_controldata and initdb there.)
> 
> >> I was thinking about that.  What do others think?
> 
> > Sounds good. We already separate server and client programs in the docs, 
> > and packagers put them in different packages too. This should make 
> > packagers' life a little bit easier in the long run.
> 
> I'm pretty much -1 on relocating anything that's under src/bin already.

So let's put the whole bunch under src/bin/ and be done with it.

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