Markus Wanner wrote: > Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > Alright, so it was actually my own fault to have done the pg-8.2 > > backports, and I'm sorry for have followed the request to do so. > > Don't be sorry. I still appreciate having an up to date Postgres version > available on etch. (And I still think it's the right thing to support > multiple major versions.) If there are no backported packages for any given Postgres major version, what will happen is that a lot of people will be forced to build them from source, which is a lot worse. (There is a reason why PGDG provides RPM for all major versions, for a lot of Redhat distributions -- people do want them). -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
