On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Nickolay Hodyunya <nickolayh@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

Hmm...
May be slotting would be a good idea?

I like the way how it done in ubuntu (with some kind of extra overlay): it
is possible to install e.g. 8.2 and 8.3 at the same time, and they would use
different init scripts (with version suffix), different configs and
everything different.

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Vladimir Rusinov
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