Re: RPM question: Where to put psycopg2 files

On 17/01/2011 14:02, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>> I don't know about RPMs but in Debian we have multiple versions of
>> > postgresql and only *one* libpqXX package (usually it comes from the
>> > most recent stable release). So my suggestion is to have only one
>> > version of psycopg linked to the most recent libpq package.
> This is not really the final solution.
>
> I've got a Debian/Squeeze machine which runs PG 9.0 from /Unstable.
>
> I've got a second Debian/Squeeze machine running PG 8.4 from /Squeeze.
>
> Both use the same psycopg2 from /Squeeze.
>
> Transferring bytea data from the 9.0 machine to the 8.4 one
> does not work (other datatypes work fine).

Can you please provide a test case? Unless going from 9.0 -> 8.4 is
documented as not possible by PostgreSQL docs psycopg should be able to
convert the data correctly.

federico

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