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On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Nickolay Hodyunya <nickolayh@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 04:28:02PM +0000, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > I know I can activate newer version with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, but why is |
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> postgres |
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> > at gentoo still at version 8.0 when the most current release is 8.3. Are |
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> > there stability issues? |
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> according to http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning |
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> postgresql major version upgrades requires dump and restores, so it |
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> should be upgrade issues. If you are going to use newer release, you |
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> can install it, but in my opinion most of production servers requires |
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> only minor version upgrades for bug fixes. |
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Hmm... |
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May be slotting would be a good idea? |
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I like the way how it done in ubuntu (with some kind of extra overlay): it |
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is possible to install e.g. 8.2 and 8.3 at the same time, and they would use |
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different init scripts (with version suffix), different configs and |
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everything different. |
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Vladimir Rusinov |
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http://greenmice.info/ |
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