On 12/12/2014 03:11 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 12/12/2014 03:07 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 12/9/14 4:10 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Maybe it makes sense to have a distinction between client programs and
>>> server programs. Can we have src/sbin/ and move stuff that involves the
>>> server side in there? I think that'd be pg_xlogdump, pg_archivecleanup,
>>> pg_upgrade, pg_test_timing, pg_test_fsync. (If we were feeling bold we
>>> could also move pg_resetxlog, pg_controldata and initdb there.)
>>
>> I was thinking about that. What do others think?
>
> Sounds good. We already separate server and client programs in the docs,
> and packagers put them in different packages too. This should make
> packagers' life a little bit easier in the long run.
src/sbin might not be a good name for the directory, though. We're not
going to install the programs in /usr/sbin, are we? Maybe src/server-bin
and src/client-bin.
- Heikki