On Sat, 8 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Win32 is going to need relocatable installs, and Unix packagers have > asked for this too. > > A relocatable install is one where you can do 'gmake install', tar up > the directory where you installed it, then untar it on to another > machine with the same operating system, but into a different directory > location. > > For example, if you use the defaults for directory locations, PostgreSQL > will install into /usr/local/pgsql, and everything will be under that > directory --- bin, lib, include, share. (Not sure about etc, doc, and > man.) > > However, right now, if you try to move /usr/local/pgsql to /var/pgsql, > the database will not work because there are hard-coded directory > dependencies in the binaries: > > initdb has to find its *.bki files in /share > initdb has to find the postgres binary in /bin > pg_dumpall has to find pg_dump > postgres has to find shared objects the /lib > Win32 postgres has to find /share/timezone > > Maybe there are more.
Is there a reason why we can't use a PGSQL_PREFIX ENV variable or something like that? If not defined, use compiled in default? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
