* Oliver Burger ([email protected]) wrote: > Hi, > > because of the alpha2 iso thread I was just looking at the available database > servers in Mageia. > Especially keeping my eye on postgres. > > At the moment, we have only one version of postgres: postgresql9.0-9.0.2. I > would like to have at least posgresql8.4 as well for compatibility reasons. > Even between minor version changes of postgres, there sometimes are changes > in > the database format or the syntax which force you to rewrite a lot of > application code using postgres and dump your databases, update and restore > them. > Normally this is working nicely, but if you are using extensions to postgres > like postgis and so on (which may or may not be packaged and thus be selve > compiled), it can be a pain in the ass. > > I (as a padawan packager) feel not up to packaging something like postgres, > so > I would like to ask if someone else would?
I'll do it ASAP. But you have to know I did the hardest part of the work in mandriva and now packaging postgresq is quite easy, including updating to minor version. > > On a related item I would like to ask, if we are going to provide mariadb as > an alternative for mysql. > > Oliver -- Olivier Thauvin CNRS - LATMOS ♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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