On Friday 03 July 2009 02:28:22 Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I looked at that and the problem is that pg_migrator must be built
> against the _new_ source tree, and will issue an error and exit if it
> isn't.  The problem with PGXS is it silently chooses the source tree to
> use based on which pg_config it finds in its path first;  that seems
> error-prone.  Any ideas for a clearer way to specify pg_config, and is
> that really helping things if the user has to specify it?

The standard way to do that is

make PG_CONFIG=/some/where/pg84/pg_config

> As you can
> see, pg_migrator has the requirement of running in a multi-pg_config
> binary environment, so it has extra complexity that might make pg_config
> an undesirable option to be promoted first.

It's certainly easier to do the above than having to download, configure, and 
modify the PostgreSQL source tree, I think.


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