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

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: moving from contrib to bin
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Msg-id 548AEA08.1030502@vmware.com
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In response to Re: moving from contrib to bin  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>)
Responses Re: moving from contrib to bin  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On 12/12/2014 03:11 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> 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.

src/sbin might not be a good name for the directory, though. We're not 
going to install the programs in /usr/sbin, are we? Maybe src/server-bin 
and src/client-bin.

- Heikki




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