Hi! As an ultra-short introduction, I am the primary Debian developer for PostgreSQL packages. Our current packages became pretty hard to maintain; in particular automatic upgrades to new major versions have always been a pain and fail very often. There are also many requests for supporting more than one cluster. Thus we are currently developing a completely new packaging system and architecture for future PostgreSQL packages which allow to manage arbitrarily many clusters (also of different versions) in parallel. This allows to do cluster updates in a running system, independently of package upgrades, and will generally be much more robust and useful also for web hosters. I have heard that some guys of other distributions want to do something similar in the future, so I was asked to publish the general ideas for public review and discussion: http://people.debian.org/~mpitt/postgresql-ng.html Thanks in advance for any thoughts, Martin (Please respect Mail-Followup-To or keep me CC'ed, I'm not subscribed). -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://www.debian.org
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