Re: Downgrading v8.4 database to v8.3

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>
To: Iñigo Martinez Lasala <imartinez(at)vectorsf(dot)com>
Cc: Jason Tan Boon Teck <tanboonteck(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Downgrading v8.4 database to v8.3
Date: 2010-05-05 16:29:17
Message-ID: 87d3xae2hu.fsf@hi-media-techno.com
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Iñigo Martinez Lasala <imartinez(at)vectorsf(dot)com> writes:

> Why don't you use postgres 8.4 from lenny-backports?

Yes, use lenny-backports.

The reason postgresql-8.4 is not available in debian stable is that they
went to feature freeze before 8.4 was released.

Then debian has a very conservative approach to a stable distribution,
the same way PostgreSQL back branches are only updated with fixes, never
with new features.

Here new feature would be either a new package or a new version of a
package if the upgrade ain't for security purposes.

There's no reason to avoid lenny-backports. All the more when
considering PostgreSQL-8.4, which is stable software.

Regards,
--
dim

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