Re: BYTEA / DBD::Pg change in 9.0 beta

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> given how much faster the new format is (or rather how slow the old one
>>>> was) and the number of people I have seen complaining "why is bytea so
>>>> slow) I would like to see it staying turned on by default. However this
>>>> also depends on how quickly database driver developers can adapt.
>>
>> DBD::Pg is already patched, and will very likely be released before 9.0
>
> How do the distros generaly deal with that? E.g. do we have to wait
> for RHEL7 for it to actually show up in redhat?

Yeah, that's what I'm worried about.  I remember going through this
with E'' quoting.  It wasn't fun.

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