Bug 916327 – app-eselect/eselect-postgresql: wrongly reports "Clients only"

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description fariouche 2023-10-27 09:59:23 UTC]

Since (at least) version 16 of postgresql, postmaster does not exist.
This makes the eselect report this:
Available PostgreSQL Slots
  14                        14.9
  16 *                      16.0 (Clients Only)

This is a minor bug as it seem to be display only

[Comment 1 Sam James 2023-10-27 12:21:55 UTC]

I imagine this is because USE=server was dropped.

[Comment 2 Karl Hakimian 2023-11-17 13:24:12 UTC]

This same thing is happening to me. Looks like eselect is looking for postmaster in the bin directory which in earlier releases was a link pointing to postgres. No such link exists in 16.

[Comment 3 Aaron W. Swenson 2024-02-28 03:21:02 UTC]

(In reply to Karl Hakimian from comment #2)
> This same thing is happening to me. Looks like eselect is looking for
> postmaster in the bin directory which in earlier releases was a link
> pointing to postgres. No such link exists in 16.

You nailed it.

Much longer time ago it wasn't a symlink. It just wasn't thought about until now.

[Comment 4 Torbjörn Lönnemark 2024-09-20 00:21:19 UTC]

Created attachment 903398 [details, diff]
Fix for incorrect "Clients Only" label

Attaching patch with a fix. Applies against https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/postgresql/eselect.git/.

See commit message for full details.