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 1KtmOe-0006Z6-EC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:53:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A8D1E0350; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.247]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064FBE0350 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so1383050rvf.46 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:53:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.114.19 with SMTP id r19mr2019909rvm.70.1224953630410; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:53:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.134.11 with HTTP; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:53:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:53:50 +0400 From: "Vladimir Rusinov" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why is postgresql so old? In-Reply-To: <20081025164650.GA4867@stdcall> 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: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_71877_31658388.1224953630131" References: <1224952082.671128@rumba> <20081025164650.GA4867@stdcall> X-Archives-Salt: 0a8f1281-f385-4662-a047-30e5829f4b4b X-Archives-Hash: 25046769f824290ab6d376d4a21c721f ------=_Part_71877_31658388.1224953630131 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Nickolay Hodyunya 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. -- Vladimir Rusinov http://greenmice.info/ ------=_Part_71877_31658388.1224953630131 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline



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.

--
Vladimir Rusinov
http://greenmice.info/
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