Re: PG on Debian 4.0.x ?

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:09 +0200, Andreas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I compiled the latest and greatest PG server on SUSE systems until now.
>
> Now I want to stay with the "official" binaries of the Debian project
> because I plan to evaluate if it is really that good for a server as
> everybody is telling me.
> It should get a server with only the minimum of programs that don't
> belong to the dedicated task, like in this case "run a PG server".
> Especially I don't want any development stuff like gcc on this server
> for security reasons. So I can't build it myself - at least not with
> this box.
>
> BTW ... the Debian installer had an anonymous option "SQL server" and
> installed PostgreSQL 8.1.8 as default without further question. This is
> cool because I - being a known pessimistic - expected to find MySQL. ;-)
>
> Do you know where I find PG 8.2.4 and pgAdmin 1.6.3 binaries for Debian
> 4.0.x ?
>

You can get postgresql-8.2.4 from unstable, which is probably the best
place to get it.

pgAdmin is client software -- why would you want it on a dedicated
postgresql server?

Regards,
Jeff Davis