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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: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>, Josh Berkus <josh.berkus@pgexperts.com>, postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-08T01:47:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 05/06/2011 04:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> FWIW, I did move pg_config from -devel to the "main" (really client)
> postgresql package in Fedora, as of 9.0.  That will ensure it's present
> in either client or server installations.  Eventually that packaging
> will reach RHEL ...
>    

We should make sure that the PGDG packages adopt that for 9.1 then, so 
it starts catching on more.  Unless Devrim changed to catch up since I 
last installed an RPM set, in that 9.0 it's still in the same place:

$ rpm -qf /usr/pgsql-9.0/bin/pg_config
postgresql90-devel-9.0.2-2PGDG.rhel5

While Peter's question about whether it's really all that useful is 
reasonable, I'd at least like to get a better error message when you 
don't have everything needed to compile extensions.  I think the 
shortest path to that is making pg_config more likely to be installed, 
then to check whether the file "pg_config --pgxs" references exists.  
I'll see if I can turn that idea into an actual change to propose.

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