On 21/03/2010 7:12 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Herouth Maoz<herouth@unicell.co.il> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The problem is not so much danger in upgrading, but the fact that doing so
>> without using the system's usual security/bugfix update path means
>> non-standard work for the sysadmin, meaning he has to upgrade every package
>> on the system using a different upgrade method, being notified about it from
>> a different source, and needing to check each one in different conditions,
>> which makes his work impossible. So the policy so far has been "Use the
>> packages available through debian". So I'll need to check if there is an
>> upgrade available through that path - and the question is whether it's
>> worthwhile (i.e. whether the bug in question has indeed been fixed).
>
> I'm certain debian keeps the pgsql packages up to date within a few
> days or at most weeks of their release .
In sid (unstable), sure. But the stable releases don't usually see major
version upgrades (like 8.3 to 8.4) unless they're done via unofficial
channels like backports.org .
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Craig Ringer