Is this an  open 8.0 item?

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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > This is fundamentally broken by the changes to support relocatable
> > installs: PG now attempts to find the support files by relative paths
> > from the place where the executable was found.
> 
> I recall that on some systems the "normal" method of installation is 
> installing everything in private directory trees and then symlinking 
> the relevant parts to shared locations.  Also, sites using AFS file 
> systems do things of that kind.  I hope these systems aren't going to 
> be broken completely.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Eisentraut
> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
> 

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