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Re: Why not install pgstattuple by default?

Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>, Josh Berkus <josh.berkus@pgexperts.com>, postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-06T18:32:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Christopher Browne wrote:
> I'm getting "paper cuts" quite a bit these days over the differences
> between what different packaging systems decide to install.  The one
> *I* get notably bit on, of late, is that I have written code that
> expects to have pg_config to do some degree of self-discovery, only to
> find production folk complaining that they only have "psql" available
> in their environment.
>   

Given the other improvements in being able to build extensions in 9.1, 
we really should push packagers to move pg_config from the PostgreSQL 
development package into the main one starting in that version.  I've 
gotten bit by this plenty of times.

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