[gentoo-user] Why is postgresql so old?

[gentoo-user] Why is postgresql so old?

[Konstantinos Agouros]

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?

Regards,

Konstantin
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Re: [gentoo-user] Why is postgresql so old?

[Nickolay Hodyunya]

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.
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Regards, Nickolay Hodyunya.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is postgresql so old?

[Vladimir Rusinov]

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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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Re: [gentoo-user] Why is postgresql so old?

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Samstag, 25. Oktober 2008 18:53:50 schrieb Vladimir Rusinov:

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

Looks like the devs had that idea already:

[I] dev-db/postgresql-base
     Available versions:  
        (7.3)   (~)7.3.21!t
        (7.4)   (~)7.4.19!t (~)7.4.21-r1!t
        (8.0)   (~)8.0.15!t (~)8.0.17!t   
        (8.1)   (~)8.1.11!t (~)8.1.13!t   
        (8.2)   (~)8.2.9!t (~)8.2.10!t    
        (8.3)   (~)8.3.4!t

Bye...

	Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is postgresql so old?

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Samstag, 25. Oktober 2008 18:28:02 schrieb Konstantinos Agouros:

> 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?

Maybe because of the switch to splitted, slotted ebuilds.

Bye...

	Dirk