Received: from localhost (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A92BA476F48 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:47:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from aleph (APh-Aug-102-1-2-208.abo.wanadoo.fr [217.128.38.208]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE1D8476F1E for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:46:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from yod.bacbuc.fdn.fr ([193.57.55.5] helo=bacbuc.dyndns.org ident=charpent) by aleph with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Y9bD-0002y5-00; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 19:46:15 +0100 Message-ID: <3E230976.1090208@bacbuc.dyndns.org> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 19:46:14 +0100 From: Emmanuel Charpentier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021226 Debian/1.2.1-9 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Nigel J. Andrews" Cc: Tom Lane , pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org, Oliver Elphick Subject: Re: [GENERAL] problem with update rules on a view (ODBC) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS new-20020517 X-Archive-Number: 200301/67 X-Sequence-Number: 3567 Nigel J. Andrews wrote: [ ... ] >I'm thinking now you are only looking for binary packages. Is building from >source unacceptable or impossible? > On Debian, it's sometimes ... mmm ... intricate. When all is fine, it's a breeze. But when you start to have a mix of packages from various releases, things tend to be a bit harder. Furthermore, when you need non-standard tools (and this is the case with Postgres, IIRC), it's often *much* better to use the (usually marvellous) work of Debian maintainers. After all, I'm maintaining a databas to use it, not for the sake of maintaining it's DBMS : I use Postgres and Debian because they are the right tool for my purposes, not for love of the tools themselves. Sincerely, Emmanuel Charpentier