Bug 916327

Summary:	app-eselect/eselect-postgresql: wrongly reports "Clients only"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	fariouche <fariouche>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	hyedad, kaikaikai, ostroffjh, pgsql-bugs, sean-gentoo, titanofold
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.