On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:57:41AM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On 16 Feb 2002, Guille -bisho- wrote: > > > > > There are RPM packages but no debs even in unstable, and I need some of > > > the new features. :( > > > > Compilation of the tarballs from www.postgresql.org worked on my machine > > and I am running an alpha, which frequently suffers from problems > > during compilation. > > Yeah, recompiling 7.2 on my intel box worked fine also. Why do you need > 7.2? The only significant things I can see added are > internationalisation and VACUUMing. Your English seems pretty adequate, > and a DB will probably live without VACUUMing until the debs come > out... and there are 7.1.3 debs in woody. They have all the > SQL-compliance stuff that 6.3 lacked (foreign key relationships, some tx > fixes etc. IIRC). > > Mind you, 7.1.3 won't install on potato (wants newer libc and a whole > stack of other stuff) so I had to recompile to get the extras (I really > needed foreign key relationships). Try recompiling; it's not that hard. > > Tom hrm... except from the backport available at: # - pg deb http://people.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql/pg7.1/potato/ ./ obviously! But then, I'm a strange stable user with slightly more backports on this box than I care to mention (including some home grown from source in unstable, including a newer version of postfix, which I needed for my place of employment as the older postfix was *massively* outdated, and its ETRN support was *BAD*). Thanks, Brett Parker now drinking belgian beer and getting quite drunk after a hard day at the office.
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