On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:43 PM, Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 05:06:59PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote: >> TBH I find that Homebrew example pretty odd. I would understand >> installing each major release in a version directory, but putting >> every point release in a different versioned directory seems like a >> bad plan. > > That's a project policy on their side. The version of all components is > kept around this way to give users the easier possibility to link or use > back a previous version if a component update does wrong. There are > advantages to such models as well for projects which care a lot about > some precise compatibility that some upstream maintainer overlooked, > while not having to patch an existing instance to filter out only a set > of components.
Well, under that definition, the behavior Peter is complaining about upthread is a feature, not a bug. If you want a separate install of PostgreSQL for every minor release, you should have a separate version of each other piece of software you build against it. Or so it seems to me, anyway. I suppose we could provide a build-time option to change this behavior. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
