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Re: DBT-5 & Postgres 9.0.3

Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>

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From: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "ktm@rice.edu" <ktm@rice.edu>, bobbyw <bobbyw@sendprobe.com>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-08-17T20:41:48Z
Lists: pgsql-performance 
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> It sounds to me like bobbyw might have two separate installations of
> postgres (or at least two copies of psql), one compiled with /tmp as the
> default socket location and one compiled with /var/run/postgresql as the
> default.  /tmp is the out-of-the-box default but I think Debian likes to
> build it with /var/run/postgresql as the default.

It looked like the actual DBT-5 harness is built with "system
libraries" (libpqxx, linked to system libpq, with debian's
/var/run/postgresql), but the scaffolding around it uses a "local"
postgres (server and psql) using the source default of /tmp?

a.


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