Re: pgadmin, debian stable & postgresql 9.0

On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 19:22 +0200, Pierre Chevalier wrote:
> Le 16/05/2012 15:29, Guillaume Lelarge claviota:
> >> And then, a second message comes:
> >> "Une erreur s'est produite :
> >> "
> >> "ERREUR: la colonne « datconfig » n'existe pas
> >> "LIGNE 1 : ...b.dattablespace AS spcoid, spcname, datallowconn,
> >> "datconfig,...
> >> " ^
> >
> > datconfig is a column of a system catalog called pg_database. It
> > disappears in 9.0. Actually, it's replaced by another catalog called
> > pg_db_role_setting. Anyway, it means you can't use pgAdmin 1.10 with
> > PostgreSQL 9.0, and more recent releases of PostgreSQL.
> >
> > You need a least pgAdmin 1.12 to connect to PostgreSQL 9.0.
>
> All right.
>
>
> >> I thought that a more up-to-date version would come in the debian
> >> sources, so I waited for a while, doing a few apt-get updates. But
> >> apparently, nothing is changing.
> >
> > If you use debian stable, it won't ever happen. You can try backports.
> > It should work with your Debian stable.
>
> Yes, I have backports repositories enabled. But for some reason, there
> is no way to get the most recent version of pgadmin3.
> I will try to force things a bit harder in my apt-get.
>
>
> >> I know that I could get sources and compile pgadmin myself, but this is
> >> for my working machine, which is quite crucial, and I try to avoid, as
> >> much as possible, any weird installations, and I keep it as
> >> debian-stable as possible.
> >>
> >> Any idea?
> >
> > If you cannot get it through backports, you have to compile it. If you
> > want to keep things nice, the best way would be to create your own .deb
> > files.
> >
> >> Maybe I could try to add a "datconfig" field to... some
> >> table, but which one?
> >
> > You cannot add columns to system tables.
>
> Yes, this makes sense! Pretty bad idea I had... :s
>
>
> >> Or I could also add another repositery to my /etc/apt/sources.list ? I
> >> tried to find one, unsuccessfully, so far.
> >
> > See
> > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/pgadmin3
>
> Ok, I'll check the repositories from there.
>
>
> > You have the latest stable release of pgAdmin (but you miss three minor
> > releases, which kinda sucks but you'll be able to connect to your 9.0
> > cluster).
>
> I'm so far behind at the moment, that it will be a pleasure to get a
> newer pgadmin, anyways!
>
> Thanks / Merci!
>

You're welcome / De rien :)

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