Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1DE0632C94 for ; Wed, 5 May 2010 13:27:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15283-07 for ; Wed, 5 May 2010 16:27:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from smtp1.hi-media-techno.com (smtp1.hi-media-techno.com [195.158.241.85]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201C46329F4 for ; Wed, 5 May 2010 13:27:01 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.hi-media-techno.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9552D93B90; Wed, 5 May 2010 18:27:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp1.hi-media-techno.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp1.backbone.hi-media-techno.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id T7PxomjAJSwB; Wed, 5 May 2010 18:26:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.hi-media-techno.com (unknown [192.168.27.17]) by smtp1.hi-media-techno.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A310B93B6C; Wed, 5 May 2010 18:26:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.hi-media-techno.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD2310545; Wed, 5 May 2010 18:26:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail1.hi-media-techno.com Received: from mail1.hi-media-techno.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail1.hi-media-techno.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id te40mP8tn-1c; Wed, 5 May 2010 18:26:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dim (unknown [83.167.62.196]) by mail1.hi-media-techno.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 16CCD66A25; Wed, 5 May 2010 18:26:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dim (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B1BBC14437; Wed, 5 May 2010 18:29:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Dimitri Fontaine To: =?utf-8?Q?I=C3=B1igo?= Martinez Lasala Cc: Jason Tan Boon Teck , pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Downgrading v8.4 database to v8.3 Organization: Hi-Media References: <1273075740.1897.173.camel@deimos> User-Mail-Address: dfontaine@hi-media.com Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 18:29:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1273075740.1897.173.camel@deimos> (=?utf-8?Q?=22I=C3=B1igo?= Martinez Lasala"'s message of "Wed, 05 May 2010 18:09:00 +0200") Message-ID: <87d3xae2hu.fsf@hi-media-techno.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201005/69 X-Sequence-Number: 34542 I=C3=B1igo Martinez Lasala writes: > Why don't you use postgres 8.4 from lenny-backports? Yes, use lenny-backports. The reason postgresql-8.4 is not available in debian stable is that they went to feature freeze before 8.4 was released. Then debian has a very conservative approach to a stable distribution, the same way PostgreSQL back branches are only updated with fixes, never with new features. Here new feature would be either a new package or a new version of a package if the upgrade ain't for security purposes. There's no reason to avoid lenny-backports. All the more when considering PostgreSQL-8.4, which is stable software. Regards, --=20 dim