Re: PostgreSQL in mission-critical system

Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:15:02AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote:
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>
>>I'd be careful about recommending this. Debian is notoriously behind in
>>versions in their stable tree.
>>
>
> While it's true that Debian doesn't tend to have the latest and
> greatest in stable (even right at the time stable comes out), the
> PostgreSQL maintainer (Oliver Elphick) for Debian is very quick to
> release .debs for stable for the most recent PostgreSQL release. So
> the notoriety is not justified in this case.

I'm puzzled by that comment. Stable has 6.5.3 right now. The
maintainer is great, I agree, but it's just not Debian policy to keep
stable updated, beyond needed security fixes.

So seems to me Gregory Seidman was right. Unless you consider 6.5.3
up-to-date.

In fact, I'll bet a lot of Debian PostgreSQL users are running the
'testing' version, or compiled a newer version of PostgreSQL from source.