#959891 postgresql-client-12: pgbench is in the wrong package

Package:
postgresql-client-15
Source:
postgresql-15
Description:
front-end programs for PostgreSQL 15
Submitter:
Ben Harris
Date:
2024-10-08 15:06:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#959891#5
Date:
2020-05-06 16:52:58 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

The "pgbench" program doesn't seem to be in the postgresql-client-12
package, being instead in postgresql-12, the server package.  I think
this is probably a mistake: pgbench is listed as a "client application"
here:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/reference-client.html

If I install postgresq-12, I can use pgbench against a remote database,
so it looks like it does indeed work correctly as a client.

I think this came about because pgbench used to be part of
postgresql-contrib-10, and it got merged into the wrong package when
postgresql-contrib-10 was abolished.

#959891#16
Date:
2022-11-06 22:10:45 UTC
From:
To:
Dear submitter,

as the package postgresql-14 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1023543

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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#959891#29
Date:
2023-11-25 11:50:55 UTC
From:
To:
Re: Peter Eisentraut

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=959891

Mostly a historical mistake that has been difficult to fix because of
the update-alternatives trees for the manpages, where moving "slave"
links from one tree to another is quite hard. I think it's possible to
revisit that now that the client and server manpage trees have been
merged.

Ack.

Christoph