Francis Reed wrote:
> If I want to create a postgres database on multiple machines, is the
> practice of tarring or zipping up binaries compiled on one machine and
> untarring them on another, and using the binaries (initdb etc) acceptable?.
> This removes the need for having a compiler and environment on the target
> machine, or is it necessary always to have such an environment on any
> machine you intend to use postgres on? Postgres seems to have enough
> environment options to allow this to work, overriding the original library
> locations and paths etc from the original machine on which postgres was
> compiled.
>
> Does anyone see a problem with this approach?
Possibly hundreds. You clearly can't move from Sun/SPARC to BSD/x86 to
Linux/PPC. What platform are you interested in and why isn't there a
package manager for it?
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd