pgbench in wrong package? - Mailing list pgsql-pkg-debian

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject pgbench in wrong package?
Date
Msg-id f20a7b11-2dfc-492d-b529-1e47fbb20448@eisentraut.org
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Responses Re: pgbench in wrong package?  (Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>)
List pgsql-pkg-debian
pgbench is in the postgresql-client-common package [0], but the actual 
per-version binaries are in the server package, e.g., postgresql-16 [1]. 
  If you try to call pgbench without installing the server package, it 
tells you

Error: You must install at least one postgresql-client-<version> package

but that is wrong advice in this situation.

Is there are reason for this arrangement?

(The same confusion applies to vacuumlo.)


[0]: 
https://packages.debian.org/trixie/all/postgresql-client-common/filelist
[1]: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/amd64/postgresql-16/filelist



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