Re: Moving test_fsync to /contrib?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >> It seems like /contrib would be more natural, no? /bin seems like
> >> overkill because most people will not want to run it. Most of /contrib
> >> is installed already by installers, I think.
>
> > At least on Red Hat, it is packaged separately.
>
> On Red Hat, it is not packaged at all (at least not by me), and won't
> be unless it goes into contrib. I don't believe it belongs in the
> base package.
>
> Also, it's not going to get packaged at all unless it gets renamed to
> something less generic, maybe pg_test_fsync; I'm not going to risk the
> oppobrium of sticking something named "test_fsync" into /usr/bin.
> Moving to contrib would be a good opportunity to fix the name.

Agreed on the need for a name change. /contrib or /bin are fine with
me.

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