Hi Mark,
This change actually tried to help users who have multiple versions installed.
Instead of using .bash_profile and wiping it everytime, we asked users to have
.pgsql_profile (something we invented) and push all customization there.
However, there is a packaging bug in 9.5 that used to overwrite .bash_profile:
https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/1215
We fixed it in 9.6, and 9.5.4-2. This bug does not exist in latest 9.4, too. So
after you upgrade to latest minor versions, and put all your customization into
.pgsql_profile, you should be good to go.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Please let us know if you have questions/comments.
Regards, Devrim
On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 11:50 -0600, ..: Mark Sloan :.. wrote:
> i'm trying to understand more about this change since it, seems to have
> unpleasant results during a yum update when there are multiple server
> versions installed on a machine at the same time.
>
> * Tue Feb 03 2015 Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org> - 9.4.1-1PGDG
> - Update to 9.4.1, per changes described at:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-1.html
>
>
>
>
> *- Improve .bash_profile, and let users specify their own environmental
> settings by sourcing an external file, called ~/.pgsql_profile. Per
> request from various users, and final suggestion from Martin Gudmundsson.*
>
>
>
> that it wiped out the ~postgres/.bash_profile that existed too, which
> caught some of my peers by surprise.
>
>
> I realize this was 'a long time ago' and they should have raised the
> concern sooner but I'm just trying to educate myself on the discussion
> around this first.
>
> basically, i'm trying to understand what people should be doing
> differently, and what the perceived upside to the community is.
>
>
>
> -Mark
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