In response to Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Decibel! wrote: > > On Nov 18, 2007, at 1:26 PM, gabor wrote: > >> hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > >>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:40:43AM +0100, Gábor Farkas wrote: > >>>> we are moving one database from postgresql-7.4 to postgresql-8.2.4. > >>> any particular reason why not 8.2.5? > >> > >> the distribution i use only has 8.2.4 currently. > > > > Then I think you need to consider abandoning your distribution's > > packages or find a better distribution. IIRC, 8.2.5 is over 2-3 months > > old now; there's no reason a distribution shouldn't have it at this > > point. (Unless of course you haven't kept your distribution > > up-to-date... ;) > > Some people run distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (their > latest); I do. postgresql that comes with that. > > Now once they pick a version of a program, they seldom change it. They do > put security and bug fixes in it by back-porting the changes into the source > code and rebuilding it. I guess for postgresql the changes were too much for > backporting, so they upgraded from postgresql-8.1.4-1.1 that came with it > originally and are now up to postgresql-8.1.9-1.el5. I am pretty sure they > will never upgrade RHEL5 to the 8.2 series because they do not do it to get > new features. > > Now you may think there are better distributions than Red Hat Enterprise > Linux 5, but enough people seem to think it good enough to pay for it and > keep Red Hat in business. I doubt they are all foolish. > > Luckily I do not seem to be troubled by the problems experienced by the O.P. > > I do know that if I try to use .rpms from other sources, I can get in a lot > of trouble with incompatible libraries. And I cannot upgrade the libraries > without damaging other programs. I think you've missed the point. The discussion is not that the distro is bad because it hasn't moved from 8.1 -> 8.2. The comment is that it's bad because it hasn't updated a major branch with the latest bug fixes. i.e. it hasn't moved from 8.1.4 to 8.1.5. If this is indeed the case, I agree that such a distro isn't worth using. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
