Re: PostgreSQL 8.1.0 RHEL / Debian incompatible packages

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Richard van den Berg <richard(dot)vandenberg(at)trust-factory(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 8.1.0 RHEL / Debian incompatible packages
Date: 2005-12-07 15:37:32
Message-ID: 20051207153732.GH6026@ns.snowman.net
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* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Richard van den Berg <richard(dot)vandenberg(at)trust-factory(dot)com> writes:
> > Is there a good reason that the official RPM on postgresql.org is not
> > build with HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP ? It would have been so nice if this
> > would have worked. :-/
>
> You've got that 100% backwards: you should be complaining to Debian that
> it's not their business to editorialize on the default setting.

The default setting sucks. You're advocating a position which would
mean more work for our users (since they'd have to recompile their own
packages to achieve a sane setting). No thanks.

Stephen

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