On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote: > Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of vie sep 24 10:55:58 -0400 2010: >> On fre, 2010-09-24 at 11:38 +0100, Dave Page wrote: >> > I didn't know that existed - thanks. Unfortunately the first box I >> > tried it on didn't have it, but that's quite old and not a supported >> > platform anyway. if it does exist on everything we support, then that >> > could work. >> >> It's tempting, but I would caution against that. The installer might >> work just fine (or 95% fine) on unsupported platforms, but if you just >> shut people out you won't know. Of course you might want to print a >> *warning* based on lsb_release. > > I think the logic is if lsb_release exists on all supported platforms, > then use it to determine whether this is a supported platform or not. > If it doesn't exist, then you know it's not a supported platform in the > first place.
Yeah. We wouldn't prevent execution on an unsupported platform - just warn the user that it hasn't been tested and therefore might not work so well. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
