Re: pg_upgrade and pg_config dependency

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 08:11:17PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of vie mar 16 20:06:28 -0300 2012:
> > Àlvaro told me he got a Spanish-language report that pg_upgrade
> > failed because it required pg_config, and pg_config is only supplied
> > with the devel packages.
> >
> > I initially thought that it was a packaging problem, but I later
> > realized the pg_config is mostly developer settings, and that using
> > pg_config was not getting any change to libdir by dynamic_library_path
> > in postgresql.conf, and that I should just merge the pg_upgrade_support
> > detection code into the existing shared library detection "LOAD" code I
> > already had.
> >
> > This avoids the pg_config dependency, works better for libdir, and
> > reduces the amount of code.
>
> Bruce also found a reference to this old bug report:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2011-12/msg00254.php
> This includes a link to a Debian bug report by Peter.
>
> > Patch attached. Should this be backpatched to PG 9.1; I think so.
>
> +1

Applied, and backpatched to 9.1.

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