Re: Allowing multiple versions of PG under NetBSD - Mailing list pgsql-general

From D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Subject Re: Allowing multiple versions of PG under NetBSD
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Msg-id 20160729161708.5b6e89cc@imp
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In response to Re: Allowing multiple versions of PG under NetBSD  (Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>)
Responses Re: Allowing multiple versions of PG under NetBSD  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
Re: Allowing multiple versions of PG under NetBSD  (Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:09:59 -0500
Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> wrote:
> >> version to the bare version of the binary name.  Example:
> >>  - psql.8.3
> >>  - psql.9.1
> >>  - psql.9.3
> >>  - psql ==> psql.9.3
> >>
> >> Other than linking to the correct library can you think of any
> >> other issues with this?
> >
> > Data Directory naming, as well as keeping the init-scripts straight.
> >
> And who gets 5432, and Unix socket naming, it starts to get messy.....

I assume that anyone running multiple versions knows how to specify all
that stuff when initializing and starting the different servers.

From the comments I saw it looked to me like other systems (Linux?) had
already solved this problem.  Was I wrong?

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