Re: Upgrade to Red Hat Linux 9 broke PostgreSQL

Keith C. Perry <netadmin@vcsn.com>

From: Network Administrator <netadmin@vcsn.com>
To: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
Cc: Guy Fraser <guy@incentre.net>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-04-15T18:47:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
When you say "forces upgrades" what do you mean?

I might do things differently- I download the tarball, compile, dump and restore
my system.  I've never have Postgres **not** compile on my Slackware boxes but
I've had **tons** of issues with RPM disto's (I've consulted on RedHat &
Mandrake personally) with even smaller packages things so I don't use it much.

Seems to me you should **always** be able to compile software.

-$0.02

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Keith C. Perry
Director of Networks & Applications
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Quoting Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>:

> On Tuesday 15 April 2003 14:23, Guy Fraser wrote:
> > What a mess...
> > RH has fouled up a lot of stuff lately...
> > I'm not even going to go there...
> 
> It's as much a problem with other RPM-based distributions of Linux as it is 
> with Red Hat.  And I am of the strong opinion that it is just as much the 
> fault of the  way PostgreSQL forces upgrades as it is a fault with any 
> particular distributor.
> 
> Even a straight portupgrade on FreeBSD is broken.  It's a mess because of the
> 
> way PostgreSQL needs to be upgraded.
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