Tom Lane wrote:
>
> I seem to recall we found that some tar versions have a limit on total
> pathname length? The tarball was actually OK but it got extracted
> incorrectly. However the OP seems to be running a reasonably current
> Linux so it's hard to believe he's got that problem.
>
>
Hi Tom,
Thank you for a hint. It was a Midnight Commander bug. MC uncompress
sources into three separate directories.
I have uncompressed the 8.3.1 archive with bzip -d and tar -xvf (one
directory !)
and compiled succesfully. It seems to be a Midnight Commander not
PostgreSQL problem.
Regards
Rony