Re: Multiple versions of PostGreSQL

[Filip Hajny <filip%joyent.com@localhost>]

> 9. 8. 2016 v 14:17, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>:
> 
> How hard would it be to allow multiple versions of PostGreSQL to be
> installed?  It would mean renaming include and lib directories as well
> as a few include and bin files with symlinks to the the primary
> versioned files as per mk.conf.  At least some of the Linux
> distributions do this so it is not impossible.
> 
> If we do it it would be nice to do it before PG10 is released.

pkgsrc used to have that feature at some point, but IIRC it never worked well e.g. when bl3’ing PostgreSQL clients. It was removed a few years back.

-F