Re: patch postgres user .bash_profile - Mailing list pgsql-pkg-yum

From Pierre-Alain TORET
Subject Re: patch postgres user .bash_profile
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In response to Re: patch postgres user .bash_profile  (Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org>)
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Devrim,
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>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Re: patch postgres user .bash_profile
>Local Time: 10 December 2017 8:21 PM
>UTC Time: 10 December 2017 19:21
>From: devrim@gunduz.org
>To: Pierre-Alain TORET <pierre-alain.toret@protonmail.com>, pgsql-pkg-yum@postgresql.org
<pgsql-pkg-yum@postgresql.org>
>
>
> On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 06:17 -0500, Pierre-Alain TORET wrote:
>>I'm sending you a little patch to improve a the usability of the user
>> postgres by adding the binaries to the PATH variable in its .bash_profile.
>>Don't hesitate to comment or criticize but I think it will make the life of
>> user easier, especially those installing the package for the first time.
>>
>> Thanks for the patch.
>>
>> The policy is adding the binaries which are cross-version compatible under
>> $PATH (/usr/bin in this case), and keep others in their own directories. Your
>> patch will probably break the latter, because we want users to specify full
>> path of the "other" binaries, so that things won't be broken.
>>
>> So, unfortunately I will reject this.
>>

Thanks for your explanations, this makes perfect sense in rejecting this patch.
Sorry for the noise.

Regards,


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