From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Postgres Maillist <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: unix socket location confusion
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 23:01:02 -0600
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On Mar 22, 2015, at 10:54 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> We're entirely at the mercy of the platform's dynamic loader when it comes
> to things like this. I don't think I trust Darwin's loader with relative
> paths; though come to think of it, Linux's loader may be no better. Way
> too many opportunities to screw up there.
It actually does work, I've used it. But I never found any documentation about it, and it was a damned PITA to figure out.
> As for static libraries, there are good reasons why those aren't superior
> solutions. Red Hat for instance has a blanket policy against shipping
> static libraries (with only very narrow exceptions), and I believe the
> same is true of many other vendors.
Yep. Good & bad both ways.
Anyway, I clearly need to not nest specific version builds with the dbs that use that version. I need to build all versions into /usr/local/pgsql-XYZ and then symlink as needed.
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