Re: BYTEA / DBD::Pg change in 9.0 beta

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> given how much faster the new format is (or rather how slow the old one
>>>>> was) and the number of people I have seen complaining "why is bytea so
>>>>> slow) I would like to see it staying turned on by default. However this
>>>>> also depends on how quickly database driver developers can adapt.
>>>
>>> DBD::Pg is already patched, and will very likely be released before 9.0
>>
>> How do the distros generaly deal with that? E.g. do we have to wait
>> for RHEL7 for it to actually show up in redhat?
>
> Yeah, that's what I'm worried about.  I remember going through this
> with E'' quoting.  It wasn't fun.

Right. So do we know what the policy is? As long as DBD::Pg is
released before pg 9.0 we'd be fine, *provided* that they
(redhat/novell/debian/whatever) actually pull in the latest version at
that point...

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