Thomas,
Ref : Tuesday, October 31, 2000 6:46:46 PM
TG> I agree that conf is better than a rebuild in most cases...but:
TG> In Bryan's defence, hacking globals.c *is* recommended in the man pages.
Woops! my apologies to Bryan, haven't read that (or maybe slipped on
it ;-) )
However, I think if the problem arises for me, I will prefer config
over "broken" code : the time it takes to find a cause of trouble is
manageable only with config. My PoV :)
TG> (Nonetheless, I added an explanation - and my patch - to my log files.
TG> I think any DBA/SysAdmin who's been around awhile sees the value of
TG> a good log/commented code...)
The DBA part of me says yes and the developer part is not so sure ;-)
TG> You know one things does cause me to scratch my head: Pg does seem
TG> to require new env vars fairly often.
TG> I had about 4 or 5 set initially, then DBD wanted POSTGRES_INCLUDE
TG> and POSTGRES_LIB. Now, with a default behaviour change, we need
TG> PGDATESTYLE. One would think these guys at Pg are a band of merry
TG> pranksters, eh? ;-)
Apparently, this is just the result of your success !
Have you tried installing Oracle 8.0 and then 8.1 ? Do you know how
many env variables have been added between the 2 versions ? You think
you can tolerate the comparison ?
Regards,
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Jean-Christophe Boggio
cat@thefreecat.org
Independant Consultant and Developer
Delphi, Linux, Oracle, Perl