Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Decibel! wrote: >>> On Nov 18, 2007, at 1:26 PM, gabor wrote: >>>> hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:40:43AM +0100, Gábor Farkas wrote: >>>>>> we are moving one database from postgresql-7.4 to postgresql-8.2.4. >>>>> any particular reason why not 8.2.5? >>>> the distribution i use only has 8.2.4 currently. >>> Then I think you need to consider abandoning your distribution's >>> packages or find a better distribution. IIRC, 8.2.5 is over 2-3 months >>> old now; there's no reason a distribution shouldn't have it at this >>> point. (Unless of course you haven't kept your distribution >>> up-to-date... ;) >> Some people run distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (their >> latest); I do. postgresql that comes with that. >> >> Now once they pick a version of a program, they seldom change it. They do >> put security and bug fixes in it by back-porting the changes into the source >> code and rebuilding it. I guess for postgresql the changes were too much for >> backporting, so they upgraded from postgresql-8.1.4-1.1 that came with it >> originally and are now up to postgresql-8.1.9-1.el5. I am pretty sure they >> will never upgrade RHEL5 to the 8.2 series because they do not do it to get >> new features. >> >> Now you may think there are better distributions than Red Hat Enterprise >> Linux 5, but enough people seem to think it good enough to pay for it and >> keep Red Hat in business. I doubt they are all foolish. >> [snip] > > I think you've missed the point.
I think you are right. > > The discussion is not that the distro is bad because it hasn't moved from > 8.1 -> 8.2. The comment is that it's bad because it hasn't updated a > major branch with the latest bug fixes. i.e. it hasn't moved from 8.1.4 > to 8.1.5. > > If this is indeed the case, I agree that such a distro isn't worth using. > ... and I can keep RHEL5 because they went from 8.1.4 to 8.1.9. ;-) -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 10:40:01 up 27 days, 3:58, 2 users, load average: 4.43, 4.85, 5.17 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
