On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 04:50:11PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > I seem to recall seeing somewhere that other OS packagers install the
> > postgresql binaries into version specific directories--i.e. 8.4 would
> > have installed into /usr/local/pgsql/84 and then 9.0 would install
> > into /usr/local/pgsql/90, with the installer symlinking the latest
> > binary into the $PATH.
> >
> > Could the OpenBSD package do something similar?
>
> this means a bunch of additional work handling libraries (and changes in
> all the ports that use libpq).
>
> not impossible, but it's a lot of work.
And it wouldn't help with the update problem.
People would have to install 9.0 and manually convert their databases
from 8.4 *before* 9.1 will be added and 8.4 will be removed from
packages. Or we would have to keep every version of PostgreSQL in
the tree, which would be a real pain.
Ciao,
Kili
