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From: Joe Conway <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
To: Devrim GUNDUZ <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: drop postmaster symlink
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:18:30 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On 11/23/22 02:52, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> A little while ago we discussed briefly over in the meson thread whether
> we could remove the postmaster symlink [0].  The meson build system
> currently does not install a postmaster symlink.  (AFAICT, the MSVC
> build system does not either.)  So if we want to elevate the meson build
> system, we either need to add the postmaster symlink, or remove it from
> the other build system(s) as well.  Seeing that it's been deprecated for
> a long time, I propose we just remove it.  See attached patches.

I am a big +1 on removing the symlink, however it is worth pointing out 
that the PGDG RPMs still use the symlink in the included systemd service 
file:

8<----------
ExecStart=/usr/pgsql-15/bin/postmaster -D ${PGDATA}
8<----------

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Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
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