Re: pgNixInstaller: Making PostgreSQL relocatable

Hi Tom,

Tom Lane wrote:
> Enver ALTIN <ealtin@parkyeri.com> writes:
>> In order to achieve this *properly*, I intend to make PostgreSQL 
>> relocatable, that is, PostgreSQL should be able to run if you `copy` 
>> it's binaries somewhere else -- no matter where you `./configure 
>> --prefix`ed it. I took a very quick look at some parts of the codebase 
>> and it seems doable to me.
> 
> s/doable/already done/, no?

I did a Google search on "relocatable PostgreSQL" and the first 
result[1] said it's already done. Apparently it didn't work for me on 
Solaris 8 (linking problems). I'll be looking at it sometime today.

Thanks for your immediate response :)

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html
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Enver