Re: [GENERAL] which version? old user coming back....

2006-11-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 01:38:17PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Look into Debian unstable, or if you are partial to Red Hat-derived > > stuff look into Fedora. > > I have and if it is there I can't find it. Where are you looking? http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/postgresql-7.4 htt

Re: [GENERAL] which version? old user coming back....

2006-11-27 Thread Ron Mayer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> ...Should I expect >>> any problems with this even on the old 2.4 kernel? >> >> I'd advise you to be using a 2.6 kernel at this point, too. >> > ... I assume 8 will still work on 2.4 though. IIRC, you need a reasonably modern 2.6 kernel (early 2005) if you want fsync(

Re: [GENERAL] which version? old user coming back....

2006-11-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2)Is there a reliable way to install 8.1x on debian and centos using > apt and yum? For Debian, take a look at backports.org. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: H

Re: [GENERAL] which version? old user coming back....

2006-11-25 Thread developer
Thanks for the reply. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> 1)Do I run these old versions on my linux servers and the new version >> 8.1x >> for development? If I do this will I have to constantly battle >> compatibility issues when going from development to the production >> servers? Will it be a big

Re: [GENERAL] which version? old user coming back....

2006-11-25 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 04:23:10PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > I'd advise you to be using a 2.6 kernel at this point, too. I don't > know what the Centos guys have in mind as a schedule for releasing > a 2.6-based distro, but again Fedora is at least as good a bet if you > want a Red Hat based distro

Re: [GENERAL] which version? old user coming back....

2006-11-25 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 1)Do I run these old versions on my linux servers and the new version 8.1x > for development? If I do this will I have to constantly battle > compatibility issues when going from development to the production > servers? Will it be a big headache? Will I be missing out

[GENERAL] which version? old user coming back....

2006-11-25 Thread developer
I use to use postgres quite a bit but have been working on a project for a couple years that does not use it. I have finally convinced them to make the switch after our current database hsqldb couldn't keep up with the task. So, for this project I will need postgres working on a debian server (2.