Re: Moving/Using Postgres Binaries on multiple machines

Francis Reed wrote:
> We tested the principle with postgres 7.4.6 but found a what we
> believe is a compile time dependancy in create_conversion.sql where
> $libdir is not being resolved properly during the initdb process on
> the second machine. The usual environment variables don't seem to
> help (LD_LIBRARY_PATH; PATH; PGLIB etc). Anyone come across that?

Moving the installation to a different path is not supported for
permanent use before 8.0.  You better try to install in the same
directory layout on all machines where you want to deploy.

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Peter Eisentraut
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