Hi!
ROBERTOJIMENOCA [2005-02-17 15:20 +]:
What's the status of postgresql-8 debian package?
Is anyone working on it?
I am working very hard on them, but it will still take a while until
something truly releasable is ready. However, it is worth the trouble
since the new design and packaging is much more flexible and robust
than the old one:
http://people.debian.org/~mpitt/postgresql-ng.html
Are you going to upload something to experimental or unstable shortly?
Not to unstable, Sarge's release process is too far for doing such
major changes. For Sarge I'm just stabilizing the 7.4.7 version with
the old packaging.
Is postgresql-8 incompatible with postgresql-7?
Yes. You need to dump and reload.
What's the release plan?
The 8.0 packages are ready, the common infrastucture, too. I still
need to finish packaging 7.4 for the new infrastructure and to prepare
an upgrade path from the legacy packages.
If that is ready, I will upload the packages to experimental.
Are you going to replace postgresql-7 with postgresql-8?
Are you going to maintain both versions in Debian?
No, with the new architecture both major version can coexist in
parallel. I will maintain both versions for Sarge+1.
However, you can always get the latest stuff from the arch repository
at
http://arch.debian.org/arch/pkg-postgresql/
From time to time I also release snapshots to
http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/psql
Martin
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Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://www.debian.org
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