On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Stephan Szabo (sszabo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > 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. > > Honestly, in the end I think the default should be changed. I agree, but that's pretty unrelated to the overall discussion as I see it. The discussion is not really about whether integer datetime is a good idea, but instead about packaging because this isn't necessarily the only option ever going forward for which this could occur. Changing the defaults might make this case go away, but it doesn't solve the underlying issue that people have expectations that aren't necessarily true if the packages (and source tree) don't make equivalent choices.
