Re: Bug#342369: PostgreSQL 8.1.0 RHEL / Debian incompatible

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Anand Kumria wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:41:47AM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > You've got that 100% backwards: you should be complaining to Debian that
> > > it's not their business to editorialize on the default setting.
>
> Actually it *is* the business of Debian maintainers to determine what
> works best for our users over and above what upstream decide.
>
> Otherwise you'd get stuff like /usr/libexec, etc.
>
> If Tom could present an actual reason why it shouldn't be enabled, I'm sure
> Martin (Pitt) would be interested. But Stephen Frost and Peter
> Eisentraut as well as others seem to be suggesting that Debian default is
> sane.

In and of itself it's a good option.  However, choosing that option means
that Debian is saying that compatibility of data files with default
compiled PostgreSQL is not one of its primary concerns, which is a
reasonable statement, but it's still not the community's problem when
people can't move data to it.