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From: Christoph Berg <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: pgbench in wrong package?
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 11:50:55 +0000
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Re: Peter Eisentraut
> pgbench is in the postgresql-client-common package [0], but the actual
> per-version binaries are in the server package, e.g., postgresql-16 [1].  If
> you try to call pgbench without installing the server package, it tells you
> 
> Error: You must install at least one postgresql-client-<version> package
> 
> but that is wrong advice in this situation.
> 
> Is there are reason for this arrangement?

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=959891

Mostly a historical mistake that has been difficult to fix because of
the update-alternatives trees for the manpages, where moving "slave"
links from one tree to another is quite hard. I think it's possible to
revisit that now that the client and server manpage trees have been
merged.

> (The same confusion applies to vacuumlo.)

Ack.

Christoph






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