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

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

Summary: app-eselect/eselect-postgresql: wrongly reports "Clients only"

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee:	Aaron W. Swenson

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Reported:	2023-10-27 09:59 UTC by fariouche
Modified:	2024-02-28 03:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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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 archtester

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 gentoo-dev

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.