Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oxwfF-0004sp-PK for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2022 20:48:13 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oxwfC-00007h-U0 for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2022 20:48:10 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oxwfC-0008U6-KH for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2022 20:48:10 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oxwfA-0000at-H2 for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2022 20:48:09 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 2ANKm4m13740632; Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:48:04 -0500 From: Tom Lane To: Andres Freund cc: Devrim =?utf-8?B?R8O8bmTDvHo=?= , Joe Conway , Peter Eisentraut , pgsql-hackers Subject: Re: drop postmaster symlink In-reply-to: <20221123195010.huuypoilx6lw7ceg@awork3.anarazel.de> References: <252b8b14-dc3e-1c70-3da5-e59c1616f2ad@joeconway.com> <6b11c9efcd3a1d89719370224d84f8cd5e7b1a8c.camel@gunduz.org> <3705500.1669216069@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20221123195010.huuypoilx6lw7ceg@awork3.anarazel.de> Comments: In-reply-to Andres Freund message dated "Wed, 23 Nov 2022 11:50:10 -0800" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <3740630.1669236484.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:48:04 -0500 Message-ID: <3740631.1669236484@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk Andres Freund writes: > On 2022-11-23 10:07:49 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> On the whole, is it really that hard to add the symlink to the meson bu= ild? > No. Meson has a builtin command for it, just not in the meson version we= 're > currently requiring. We can create the symlink ourselves instead. The pr= oblem > is just detecting systems where we can't symlink and what to fall back t= o > there. This isn't a hill I want to die on, either way. But "it's a bit more complicated in meson" seems like a poor reason for changing the user-visible installed fileset. regards, tom lane