From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KtmI4-0005IU-1m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:47:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6FF54E02FA; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:47:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.150]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FA36E02FA for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:47:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so515430eyk.10 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:47:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:to:subject :message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:x-comment-to:user-agent:x-mailer :x-operating-system:x-pgp-public-key:x-useless-header:from; bh=pOxw/hH3pFIpo9+LT0c+FZk8Jo9mv0RMBhEPmAKIPpE=; b=ejKOyelkcJaFEmQ8LBUV1Ml8Palr6lHZdhtNijpt6YnShiJUVjnqf5BmuiXyHpDkZZ QhdM8lZ9Hx1RM4m6sLOdv5uNz+zOQo+SCjCfcmh88jWJ6u2Le3RartzQZYGArsVmtrgc SWNfWiI6p7gOBLgjSS0SH87LVMyhT0vdQQSdc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:x-comment-to :user-agent:x-mailer:x-operating-system:x-pgp-public-key :x-useless-header:from; b=ANeN30Gr5eV10OoHeRozRIbrevpZJDcDbGn2iH/XwcekQPOPefOTWKP/wku1/bug1Q i26FDZYSS1OFzfxAcJPhIVgoXgcegqtATqXiXszwDrByn696gSz1cjCzr1Hor6Xydxpr LaPmgHSv3o+jvuU6P0/wboUzAcQb0n0qMPfWc= Received: by 10.210.135.18 with SMTP id i18mr4024655ebd.128.1224953220479; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:47:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.gmail.com (pmsn.158.14.189.90.sable.dsl.krasnet.ru [90.189.14.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm2398258eya.7.2008.10.25.09.46.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:47:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtp.gmail.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:46:50 +0800 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:46:50 +0800 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why is postgresql so old? Message-ID: <20081025164650.GA4867@stdcall> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <1224952082.671128@rumba> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1224952082.671128@rumba> X-Comment-To: "Nickolay Hodyunya" User-Agent: Outluck Express 1.5.6i for MS-DOS 6.22-SMP X-Mailer: See User-Agent above :) X-Operating-System: MS-DOS 6.22-CURRENT on Sony VAIO laptop X-PGP-Public-Key: not ready yet :( X-Useless-Header: Make love, not war! From: Nickolay Hodyunya X-Archives-Salt: d11eebf3-beda-4fe5-b7d1-f5e666271a3d X-Archives-Hash: 3af076e2ba58d6e12ff01841f51e4532 On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 04:28:02PM +0000, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > Hi, > > I know I can activate newer version with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, but why is postgres > at gentoo still at version 8.0 when the most current release is 8.3. Are > there stability issues? according to http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning postgresql major version upgrades requires dump and restores, so it should be upgrade issues. If you are going to use newer release, you can install it, but in my opinion most of production servers requires only minor version upgrades for bug fixes. -- Regards, Nickolay Hodyunya.