Re: Updating Ubuntu package info

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 09:06, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> Le 04/02/2010 04:23, Greg Smith a écrit :
>> Problem #3:  Given the general popularity of Ubuntu and what I'm seeing
>> in the version history here, I think it would also be appropriate to
>> warn that versions of pgAdmin3 before the upcoming 1.12 do not support
>> connecting to PostgreSQL 9.0 databases (the '"column "datconfig" does
>> not exist' issue) on this page too.
>
> We can do that. That's not something we usually do, this kind of issue
> happens for every release of PostgreSQL and pgAdmin. You need the latest
> major pgAdmin release to work with the latest major PostgreSQL release.
> Moreover, since 1.10, they even have a message box telling the user than
> PostgreSQL releases after 8.4 could be incompatible with their pgAdmin
> release. 1.12 will have the same for post-9.0 releases.

I think this one may be big enough to consider backpatching just this one check.

Not for Ubuntu, but for users in general :-) IIRC it's the first time
we die so completely and early - previously at least some things would
work fine :)

However, do we know if Ubuntu even picks up the minor releases?

>> I think somebody (and I'm
>> getting that feeling it's going to be me) should figure out how to build
>> a backport of the pgadmin HEAD that goes at least a couple of versions
>> back to help out with this.  I personally really need a PG9.0 compatible
>> Jaunty build for example.
>>
>
> I can tell you that this "someone" is not me. I don't have the time to
> work on this.

Yeah. Having a "pgadmin-daily" PPA for Ubuntu would certainly be
pretty neat, but so far nobody has volunteered the time...

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