wal2json is now available on Homebrew #548
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Nice! Please can you make the wording more like “if you use homebrew on mac, you can install it with: ...; otherwise on a Unix-based OS you can ...” so that mac users see the original instructions as still valid (e.g. if they don’t use homebrew). Also can you confirm if the homebrew one only runs against homebrew postgres, if so that should also be noted in this text (many people use postgres.app or other alternatives on Mac; the original instructions should work everywhere). Also can you confirm that doing the homebrew install won’t force you to upgrade postgres to the latest (e.g. 12) as this can be a pain to unpick if you’re not expecting it (I’ve lost half a day to this in the past!) |
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(The latter is particularly problematic if you have postgis installed as it doesn’t allow the data migration to take place under certain circumstances, e.g. if homebrew deletes the old postgres binaries before you’ve had a chance to migrate the data.) |
I'm pretty sure that Homebrew does automatically upgrade dependencies when installing a new package, and postgres is a dependency of wal2json. Maybe it's simpler to just not mention the Homebrew option, given all of these caveats... |
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I think that might be wise; alternatively we can just suggest afterwards "wal2json is also available via Homebrew on Mac". I think the current install instructions are probably least likely to cause the user issues 👍 |
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I'm going to close this for now 👍 |
Homebrew/homebrew-core#45010