On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Anand Kumria wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:41:47AM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > > > You've got that 100% backwards: you should be complaining to Debian that > > > it's not their business to editorialize on the default setting. > > Actually it *is* the business of Debian maintainers to determine what > works best for our users over and above what upstream decide. > > Otherwise you'd get stuff like /usr/libexec, etc. > > If Tom could present an actual reason why it shouldn't be enabled, I'm sure > Martin (Pitt) would be interested. But Stephen Frost and Peter > Eisentraut as well as others seem to be suggesting that Debian default is > sane. In and of itself it's a good option. However, choosing that option means that Debian is saying that compatibility of data files with default compiled PostgreSQL is not one of its primary concerns, which is a reasonable statement, but it's still not the community's problem when people can't move data to it.
