Newbie Notes

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

> Aha. Makes sense.
> 
> I can work around the PATH issues with @var etc by generating a .tapm
> script with the paths templated in, then use that in a tapset that defines
> the probe aliases etc.
> 
> That'll work well enough that I think I can prepare a usable tapset for
> PostgreSQL.

And if that tapset is in a tapset directory, then the unused var
warnings won't be an issue.


> > OK, working on this bug.
> 
> Cool. I dug through a fair bit of code without figuring it out, sorry :S
> Want me to open a github issue?

Nah, already fixed it last night.  (We use sourceware.org/bugzilla.)

> [...]
> I'll be stuck being backward compatible for a while so I had to work around
> it anyway...

Fair enough.  When we release a new version, we do plop it onto as
many old platform versions as we can.  So fedora30 etc. should get it,
within a few weeks.


- FChE