From: Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@redhat.com>
To: Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=DCND=DCZ?= <devrim@gunduz.org>
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Subject: Re: what sub-package shoudl we use for pg_rewind
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:17:18 +0100
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On Wednesday 06 of January 2016 23:09:32 Devrim G=DCND=DCZ wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 21:50 +0100, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> > I'm tempted to put pg_rewind tool into 'postgresql-server.rpm', but
> > postgresql-9.5.spec in pgrms installs this into 'postgresql.rpm'.
> >=20
> > What is better approach?
>=20
> [..]
> I pushed it into main package, because it is not a "server" tool, and
> more like a utility. It is not something like pg_ctl or initdb.
>=20
> Why do you want to push it into -server subpackage?

It kind of sounds like tool useful for implementing slave-to-master
promotion (but both-ways).  And, given by tool's parameters, at least one
"data directory" needs to be local.

Thus I would bet it does not make sense to have this tool installed
without server package.

Pavel


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