Bug#342369: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.1.0 RHEL / Debian incompatible packages

2005-12-13 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:41:47AM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote: Tom Lane wrote: You've got that 100% backwards: you should be complaining to Debian that it's not their business to editorialize on the default setting. Actually it *is* the business of Debian maintainers to determine what

Bug#342369: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.1.0 RHEL / Debian incompatible packages

2005-12-13 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Anand Kumria wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:41:47AM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote: Tom Lane wrote: You've got that 100% backwards: you should be complaining to Debian that it's not their business to editorialize on the default setting. Actually it *is* the

Bug#342369: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.1.0 RHEL / Debian incompatible

2005-12-13 Thread Stephen Frost
* Stephan Szabo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Anand Kumria wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:41:47AM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote: Tom Lane wrote: You've got that 100% backwards: you should be complaining to Debian that it's not their business to editorialize

Bug#342369: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.1.0 RHEL / Debian incompatible

2005-12-13 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Stephen! Stephen Frost [2005-12-13 11:06 -0500]: Honestly, in the end I think the default should be changed. It could fall-back to double with a warning (if it doesn't already) if the compiler doesn't support 64bit integers. [...] I don't think the Debian default should be changed

Bug#342369: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.1.0 RHEL / Debian incompatible

2005-12-13 Thread Tom Lane
Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I fully agree. (BTW, I doubt that double operations on m68k would be any faster than integer ones...) Debatable at best --- most later 68k machines had hardware FPUs, but none of them had any 64-bit-int instructions... regards, tom

Bug#342369: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.1.0 RHEL / Debian incompatible packages

2005-12-12 Thread Richard van den Berg
Tom Lane wrote: You've got that 100% backwards: you should be complaining to Debian that it's not their business to editorialize on the default setting. I've forwarded this thread to Debian as a bug report. Their answer is they will discuss this setting again when 8.2 comes out. The full answer