David A. Bandel wrote: Can provide the specific error, but anyone who's upgraded to 8.3 >>>> should be seeing this. It's an integer = text (typecast) error. >>> With respect there is a reason that 8.3 isn't considered supported yet. >>> You should be running 8.2.6. > > I have some problems with your statement: > > 1. Quote from the LedgerSMB site (download page): > > System requirements > > To install and run LedgerSMB you need the following: > > * Perl 5.8 > * PostgreSQL 8.x (8.1 recommended) > * A CGI-enabled web server (like Apache) > > There is _nothing_ that suggests 8.3 isn't supported or won't work. > In fact, it looks like 8.1, not 8.2.6 is recommended. ????
Looks like we need to update the website :). > > 2. The PostgreSQL home page, by having a very prominent link to 8.3 > (but only small links to 8.2 and lower) is obviously pushing 8.3 and > so will be the most likely to be installed. They call it stable. > I happen to be a part of "They". I didn't say anything about stable, I said supported. There is a difference :) 8.3 breaks stuff, lots of it. It breaks it because it changes the way two very widely used items does things, Tsearch and casts. > 3. During a recent upgrade of my Debian testing (not unstable, but > testing) systems, I got this note: > > The old server and client packages are no longer supported. After the > existing clusters are upgraded, the postgresql-8.2 and > postgresql-client-8.2 packages should be removed. > Please see /usr/share/doc/postgresql-common/README.Debian.gz for details. > > So as far as at least one distro is concerned, 8.2 is obsolete and > unsupported, or so they say. No you are misunderstanding Debian. Debian says that "as of testing" 8.2 is deprecated. That is *not* anywhere near close to stable or supported. > I suspect all Debian based distros will > do/have done the same, since a number are based on testing and/or > unstable. > Actually no. Ubuntu for example doesn't have 8.3 in dapper which is their current "Stable" until Hardy is released. > Is it possible to install implicit type casts? That might be the > quickest and easiest thing for the short term. > No. It is a fundamental change. >> And if you want to try PostgreSQL 8.3 with LSMB experimentally (for the >> purpose of providing bug reports, etc), you want to be running the >> validation tarball of 1.2.13. > > I would be more than happy to do this if someone would tell me where to get > it. > That is an excellent opportunity. Thanks for your offer to help. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list Ledger-smb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
