postgresql83, binaries, and paths?

[Jay Levitt]

I'm setting up a new Mac for Ruby development, and I tried installing the 
postgresql83 and postgresql83-server ports.  But I couldn't install Ruby's 
postgresql gem.  A little digging turned this up:

1. The postgres ports install the pg_config binary (among others) into 
/opt/local/lib/postgresql83/bin/pg_config.  However, they don't add that 
directory to PATH.  Should they?  What's the convention for ports and paths? 
   Given the nice clean paths.d support in Leopard, I'd think they should 
use it.

2. Why is that ending up in lib, anyway?  A clean build from the 8.3.3 
source puts those files in /usr/local/pgsql/bin, which makes a little more 
sense... I think...

3. The port makes a half-hearted attempt to get psql into your path: it 
creates a link from /opt/local/bin/psql83 to 
/opt/local/lib/postgresql83/bin/psql.  That seems odd too. If the philosophy 
is to make it "just work", nobody's going to be typing "psql83"; they'll be 
looking for "psql".  But if the philosophy is that users should be able to 
do side-by-side installs and roll their own "psql-select", then why create 
the link at all?

What do folks think?

Jay Levitt