Re: Hokey wrong versions of libpq in apt.postgresql.org

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hokey wrong versions of libpq in apt.postgresql.org
Date: 2014-08-20 04:19:45
Message-ID: 53F421E1.2040607@commandprompt.com
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On 08/19/2014 08:34 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:

>> I iterate, the current apt.postgresql.org is not doing things correctly.
>> It breaks things and it shouldn't.
>
> FWIW, this is inconsistent with what yum.postgresql.org does - it takes
> the POLA approach of packing the libpq from the major release configured
> in the repo. Each major has its own sub-repo.
>
> I find it pretty hard to justify installing a 9.3 libpq alongside a 9.1
> server myself.
>

Exactly.

JD

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