On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> On current Ubuntu/Debian, if you try to use "pg_ctl" instead of
> "pg_ctlcluster", you get this message:
How do you define "current Ubuntu/Debian"? Because I don't get that on
debian stable for example. I do get it on current Ubuntu LTS (trusty).
> The program 'pg_ctl' is currently not installed. To run 'pg_ctl' please
> ask your administrator to install the package 'postgres-xc'
>
> I know where that's coming from, but to date I've witnessed four
> postgres beginners then trying to install postgres-xc and really messing
> up their servers. Is there any possible way to fix the command database
> so that users don't get that error message?
That does indeed sound like a packaging issue with postgres-xc. It
shouldn't expose a non-versioned pg_ctl, the same way that regular
PostgreSQL doesn't.
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