On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:09:59 -0500
Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> wrote:
> >> version to the bare version of the binary name. Example:
> >> - psql.8.3
> >> - psql.9.1
> >> - psql.9.3
> >> - psql ==> psql.9.3
> >>
> >> Other than linking to the correct library can you think of any
> >> other issues with this?
> >
> > Data Directory naming, as well as keeping the init-scripts straight.
> >
> And who gets 5432, and Unix socket naming, it starts to get messy.....
I assume that anyone running multiple versions knows how to specify all
that stuff when initializing and starting the different servers.
From the comments I saw it looked to me like other systems (Linux?) had
already solved this problem. Was I wrong?
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