On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Jerry Richards
<jerry.richards@teotech.com> wrote:
> I just installed postgreSQL 9.1 and noticed it hard-codes the folder
> /var/lib/pgsql/9.1 and it hard-codes the service name to be postgresql91.
> My previous version of 8.4.4 uses the generic folder /var/lib/pgsql/data and
> the generic service name postgresql. This causes a problem for me because I
> have a lot of tools and software that uses the old path and name.
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> Why is the hard-coded version included in the naming? Is there some install
> method to keep it using the generic names?
It's to allow > 1 version to be installed at once.