On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Nickolay Hodyunya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 04:28:02PM +0000, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I know I can activate newer version with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, but why is > postgres > > at gentoo still at version 8.0 when the most current release is 8.3. Are > > there stability issues? > according to http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning > postgresql major version upgrades requires dump and restores, so it > should be upgrade issues. If you are going to use newer release, you > can install it, but in my opinion most of production servers requires > only minor version upgrades for bug fixes. > Hmm... May be slotting would be a good idea? I like the way how it done in ubuntu (with some kind of extra overlay): it is possible to install e.g. 8.2 and 8.3 at the same time, and they would use different init scripts (with version suffix), different configs and everything different. -- Vladimir Rusinov http://greenmice.info/
