Re: New release of PostgreSQL needs testing
John Goerzen wrote:
>"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Release 6.3-2 of PostgreSQL has been uploaded tonight (through chiark).
>> This release closes all current bugs.
>>
>> Problems: the libpq++.{a,so*) library is temporarily removed, since it
>> fails to compile with the new g++ package. I have so far had no response
>> to my message asking for help about that.
>>
>> lintian reports an rpath problem with lib:
>> W: libpgperl: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004
>/auto
>> /Pg/Pg.so /usr/lib:/lib
>>
>> This appears to be put in by the MakeMaker generated Makefile; I don't kno
>w
>> how to stop MakeMaker putting this in.
>
>Lintian reported a similar problem with my libcurses-perl package; I
>suspect it is harmless and the author of it needs to be made aware of
>the issue.
>
>On a side note, do you (or anybody?) maintain the DBI driver for
>Postgres (DBD::Pg)? If not, you might want to consider maintaining
>it; if you don't want to, I probably will. If you are already
>maintaining it, it probably needs to be re-released for 6.3.
>
I have a feeling I saw an announcement by someone who was going to
package it. However, a quick search in dselect doesn't find anything.
I have never used it or tried to (what does DBI stand for?) so if you
want to package it, go ahead.
>I will probably get some new installations by Tuesday. I'll be sure
>to report bugs if I run into any problems.
There's a new patch due out this weekend. I'll wait for that before putting
up 6.3-3.
>
>Thanks for your work on this!
>
>BTW, are you a member of the Postgres team? I seem to remember that
>you maybe are. If so, I have been experiencing the occasional core
>dump from postmaster on BSDi and some odd behavior. I can provide you
>with some details on this if you'd like. If I have you confused with
>somebody else, please ignore this paragraph :-)
No, I have never had time to delve into the code to the extent that would
be necessary. I have only been involved with debugging date behaviour
around libc6.
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