On mån, 2009-08-31 at 20:54 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>
> > My counter-argument to that would be that the SuSE distribution's
> > version of PostgreSQL is so out-of-date that we don't install it.
>
> Given that it's also RPM based, is it possible to get SuSE in sync so that
> it shares the same init script as RHEL? Devrim is in the middle of a
> major overhaul of the RHEL/Fedora init script lately, adding better
> support for multiple postmasters and the like, and I'd think that SuSE
> users would like to take advantage of that work too.
Well, the init script of the SUSE RPM is not the problem. (It was,
arguably, one of the bright spots for a long time, since they removed
lots of legacy wackyness accumulated from the Red Hat era.)