People who have attempted to install PGDG versions of PostgreSQL on recent Ubuntu releases have run into the cascading problem of postgresql wanting to destroy Ubuntu.

Based on the packaging:
postgresql depends on postgresql-common
postgresql-common breaks logrotate (>3.8)
ubuntu-standard depends on logrotate
profit?...

It appears the reason for the claimed breakage is a very slight update to logrotate that requires one to tell logrotate about files/directories with non-"standard" ownership/permissions. Getting logrotate to stop complaining is trivially resolved by the user by adding a single "su" directive to the /etc/logrotate.d/postgresql-common or by having PostgreSQL log to syslog.

It seems that "breaks" is overkill and the hassle imposed by that declaration far exceeds any benefit therefrom.

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Steve




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