Re: Issue with libpq < 8.4

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
> wrote:
>> This "disqualifies" pgAdmin3 from quite a lot of platforms. There
>> aren't that many that are on 8.4+ yet :-(
>
> If the packagers are willing to update pgAdmin to 1.12, it seems
> highly likely that they'll also update their PostgreSQL package to
> 8.4+ too. The distros with a conservative update policy (like Debian
> Stable) won't update either.

It's probably going to make it very hard for a backports repository to
carry it though :( But I guess it could keep a backport of libpq as
well, since it's always backwards compatible.

> I'm pretty sure this was discussed in depth when the code was added...

I must've missed that :-( Sorry.

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