Re: [RFC] postgresql updates

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

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On 10-02-11 18:07, Tom Rini wrote:
> On 02/10/2011 09:44 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
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>> On 10-02-11 17:17, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I'll post patches later but I'd like to do some upgrading / fixing to
>>> postgresql.
>>>
>>> First, from
>>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Release_Support_Policy
>>> postgresql 8.1.x (our default) is EOL.  8.2.x will EOL this year and
>>> 8.4.x has some good life left to it.
>>>
>>> Second, after reading the various release notes (starting on
>>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/release-8-2-20.html), I would
>>> like to:
>>>
>>> - Drop 8.1.x
>>> - Drop 8.2.x (since it's D_P = -1 and unpinned)
>>> - Make 8.4.7 the default which means
>>>    - Un-pin SHR (8.4.4 to 8.4.7 is a safe and no changes needed upgrade,
>>> see http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-7.html)
>>
>> Sounds good to me!
>>
>>> What got me going here is that 8.1.x and 8.2.x both use ld directly for
>>> linking rather than CCLD which causes problems on mips64 which means
>>> qt4*demo-image was failing (well, outside of SHR ;)).
>>>
>>> But the question is, do we want to in any way try and prompt the user to
>>> get them to upgrade their 8.1.x DB?  Or just assume anyone using
>>> postgresql will be smart enough to figure out they need to dump and
>>> restore (if I read things right).
>>
>> We could at least dump something to stdout in the postinst like mysql
>> does.
> 
> I see where mysql will attempt to setup the db.  Maybe mysql_install_db
> (a command from mysql) does that?

I installed mysql5 last week and there was a huge text about deleting
test users and stuff, I haven't looked what is doing that. I assumed it
was just a echo in the postinst, but it might be the actual mysql
programs doign it :)

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