Re: Giving up multiple postmaster + RPM issue

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 01:27:26AM -0800, Paul Lindner wrote:
> My solution was to create RPMs with the version number embedded in the
> name.  Thus for 7.4.13 and 8.1.5 I have:
>
>   postgres7.4-13-1_fc6.x86_64.rpm
>   postgres8.1-5-1_fc6.x86_64.rpm
>
> Everything goes into /usr/local/pg7.4 and /usr/local/pg8.1, init
> scripts are /etc/init.d/postgres8.1, /etc/init.d/postgres7.4

That's the apporaich the debian packages take too, although they also
add a layer so you can have multiple clusters also, each with whatever
version you like.

Have a ncie day,
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