Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Konstantinos Agouros <elwood@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild of Postgres-8.3.8 almost a catastrophe
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:03:13
Message-Id: 1257930158.44458@rumba
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild of Postgres-8.3.8 almost a catastrophe by Graham Murray
1 In <87r5s7q2je.fsf@××××××××××××××××××.uk> graham@×××××××××××.uk (Graham Murray) writes:
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3 >Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> writes:
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5 >> On 9 Nov 2009, at 10:25, Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
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7 >> I assume this is an upstream decision, and may be expected to apply to
8 >> 8.3.9, 8.3.10, ... also? I have no reason to "wait and see if this is
9 >> resolved", I should be careful to do a dump and restore next time I
10 >> upgrade?
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12 >NO. It was not an upstream change. Upstream changed to integer
13 >timestamps by default in 8.4.0, the default did not change between 8.3.7
14 >and 8.3.8. However, in typical gentoo manner, this is configurable by
15 >the pg-intdatetime USE flag, which is not enabled by default.
16 Thanks for this bit of informationn.
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