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Re: postresql packages



Rob Browning wrote:
  >Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu> writes:
  >
  >> I've just downloaded the new postgresql packages from incoming to take a
  >> look at them. I have found that the backend binary, some admin
  >> binaries, the library, and include files get installed in
  >> /usr/lib/postgres. I think it would be more appropriate for the include
  >> files to be in /usr/include/postgres, for the lib to be in /usr/lib, and
  >> the admin binaries in /usr/sbin.... what do you think ?
  >
  >As far as I know, that's how it's supposed to be.

I'm still finding my way around the packaging system, and may well have
missed things.  These files are in /usr/lib/postgres because that
is where the upstream release puts them.  I'm happy to change if I have
got the proper locations wrong.  I felt that it would be assuming too
much to put a specialist package's files at a high level in the filesystem.

What is the official line?  If necessary, please file a bug report.

  >                                                   Also, why is it
  >*/postgres/* instead of */postgresql/*? (just curious)...

This is history:  POSTGRES became Postgres95, which in turn became
PostgreSQL.  The upstream source uses `postgres', and the obsoleted
package postgres95 did, so I did too.
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