| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Liraz Siri <liraz(at)turnkeylinux(dot)org>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, Chander Ganesan <chander(at)otg-nc(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: [Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCE] spreading the word on new PostgreSQL software appliance] |
| Date: | 2008-12-10 13:31:29 |
| Message-ID: | 200812101331.mBADVTK24753@momjian.us |
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> > I hate to bring this up but --- although they download Postgres updates
> > from Ubuntu, because it is a live cd don't they revert with a their
> > CD-pressed version of Postgres every time they reboot. :-(
>
> At which point they'll lose their data too. I'm not entirely convinced
> that a live CD necessarily needs to be entirely up to date with the
> latest bug fixes. They are after all designed for people to have a
> quick play with, without needing to touch their regular OS
> installation.
>
> On the other hand, the TurnKey option does say it can run in a VM,
> where presumably it would retain both updates and data.
Agreed --- it just seemed odd that they would lose a security update.
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