On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Dimitri Fontaine <dfonta...@hi-media.com> wrote: > Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> writes: >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: >>> On tor, 2010-09-23 at 23:56 +0100, Dave Page wrote: >>>> > Surely the error message can be polished, though? >> >> How else would you suggest we find out what may go wrong on an >> unsupported platform? > > My guess here is that you could use `lsb_release -a` or some other > system dependant facilities to know the current platform, then error out > with a nice error message if it's not one you know you support. > > This way the installer won't even try to run and won't go wrong on an > unsupported platform…
I didn't know that existed - thanks. Unfortunately the first box I tried it on didn't have it, but that's quite old and not a supported platform anyway. if it does exist on everything we support, then that could work. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
