What is happening (or not happening) with pgaccess?
In upgrading a computer from Debian Linux 3.1 (sarge) to Debian Linux
4.0 (etch), the package pgaccess is no longer available.
My wife has it installed on her Ubuntu system, which is the version
before the current one. However, the pgaccess is not functional, and,
when I searched for the package on the Debian web site, pgaccess is only
found to be available for Debian 3.1 (also now named "oldstable", and
has the version number 1:0.98.8.20030520-1, and, by context, I believe
that that version works with PostgreSQL 7.x and not 8.x, which is
apparently why pgaccess was not functional, as she had upgraded
PostgreSQL on her system, from 7.4 to 8.1 .
Also, that version number of pgaccess, I believe, appears to indicate
that it was released on 20 May 2003, which is, I believe, before the
release of PostgreSQL 8.x .
On searching on the PostgreSQL web site for pgaccess, the page with the
results includes the statement "Based on your search term, we recommend
the following links:
* http://www.pgaccess.org/
"
At that web site, is the title "PgAccess (Redux)" , so I do not know
whether it has been renamed "Redux", although searching on that name,
in the Debian packages search engine, returns "not found for all suites,
sections, and architectures".
Also on the web site at http://www.pgaccess.org , is stated "Last stable
version is 0.98.7 , released on 27 January 2001. Read what's new. The
first new release is expected later in June or July 2002.
"
So, it appears that that web site has not been updated since 2001 or
2002. Most of the links on that web site home page, to information about
pgaccess, are broken, and a stable version appears to have been
released, after the last stable version that is mentioned on that web
site.
On the web page at http://pgaccess.projects.postgresql.org/ is stated
"PgAccess at PgFoundry
nothing here yet "
From the Debian website webpage for information about the pgaccess
package, at http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pgaccess.html , is a link to
the web page at
http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pgaccess/news/20060816T210827Z.html ,
which states that, as at 16 August 2006, the package was removed from
the Debian "testing" distribution, which was then "etch", which is not
the Debian "stable" distribution.
Has any work been done on pgaccess, since 2003 (the assumed date of the
latest Debian release of the application package), and, does a version
exist, that is compatible with PostgreSQL 8.x?
Thank you in anticipation.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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