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* pgbench in wrong package?
@ 2023-11-23 20:24 Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
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From: Peter Eisentraut @ 2023-11-23 20:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-pkg-debian
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?
(The same confusion applies to vacuumlo.)
[0]:
https://packages.debian.org/trixie/all/postgresql-client-common/filelist
[1]: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/amd64/postgresql-16/filelist
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* Re: pgbench in wrong package?
@ 2023-11-25 11:50 Christoph Berg <[email protected]>
parent: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
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From: Christoph Berg @ 2023-11-25 11:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-pkg-debian; [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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