On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: >> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane <g...@turnstep.com> >> wrote: >>> >>>>> given how much faster the new format is (or rather how slow the old one >>>>> was) and the number of people I have seen complaining "why is bytea so >>>>> slow) I would like to see it staying turned on by default. However this >>>>> also depends on how quickly database driver developers can adapt. >>> >>> DBD::Pg is already patched, and will very likely be released before 9.0 >> >> How do the distros generaly deal with that? E.g. do we have to wait >> for RHEL7 for it to actually show up in redhat? > > Yeah, that's what I'm worried about. I remember going through this > with E'' quoting. It wasn't fun.
Right. So do we know what the policy is? As long as DBD::Pg is released before pg 9.0 we'd be fine, *provided* that they (redhat/novell/debian/whatever) actually pull in the latest version at that point... -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
