Re: pg_rewind

Re: Georges Racinet 2015-02-16 <54E1BB68.8020308@anybox.fr>
> >> Lastly, the FAQ seems to suggest that apt.p.o is actually downstream of
> >> Debian unstable ("rebuilt"), but I'm not sure to get it right,
> >> especially for stuff that's not part of PostgreSQL releases.
> > That means that the packages on apt.postgresql.org should preferably
> > be in unstable as well, but that's not a hard requirement. You'll have
> > to argue with me if you don't want that, though ;)
> I was just wondering about the workflow (which one should come first)
> and the consequences of Debian's freeze, don't worry :-)

There's also experimental, which works as well. Though for new
packages (not present in jessie anyway), uploading to unstable doesn't
disturb anything freeze-related.

> >> [1] https://github.com/vmware/pg_rewind (has separate branches for 9.3
> >> and 9.4)
> > Hmm that might be a bit of an issue - the source packages usually
> > support several PG versions in parallel, and then there's individual
> > binary packages built from that. But it's not like that's an
> > unsolvable problem.
>
> I'll make a first try with the 9.4 branch, with explicit PG version pinning.

Sounds promising :)

Christoph
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