Steve Atkins wrote: > There are no existing clashes with system tools that I'm aware of. Are > there any? Most of the clashes are with other installations of > postgresql installed on the same machine, so if name clashes is the real > reason for the change, then the version number or port number of the > installation should be part of the command name - pg_8.3.1_psql, and so > on.
Eeek! If we really want to go down that route, I would suggest that psql needs to become a bridge program that calls another program in $PREFIX/share/libexec. So 8.3 installs share/libexec/psql-8.3 and 8.2 installs share/libexec/psql-8.2. So bin/psql gets the server version and then execv() the appropriate executable from share/libexec. I "strongly object" to the idea of renaming the main binary to add a version number to the name. > The normal way of dealing with multiple installations and name clashes > would be to set your shell path appropriately, though, surely? It's a > more normal way of dealing with that than renaming the actual binaries. That's what I do, for one. Not necessarily the best design, but it's easy to do. > Perhaps something like changing "postmaster" to "postgresqld", It is already called "postgres" on newer versions. > "pg_ctl" to "safe_postgresqld", Now that's plain weird. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
