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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2006 18:38:20 -0300 (ADT)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
Cc:        freebsd ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: What is it with PostgreSQL 7.4.x ... ?
Message-ID:  <20060516183739.J1279@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <BE27EA1B-01E2-4004-86BF-3F8583C5F1BC@khera.org>
References:  <20060516144949.F1279@ganymede.hub.org> <BE27EA1B-01E2-4004-86BF-3F8583C5F1BC@khera.org>

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On Tue, 16 May 2006, Vivek Khera wrote:

>
> On May 16, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>> 
>> Why does it appear that the default postgresql install for everything is 
>> stuck at 7.4?  I can understand for aolserver/openacs, since it doesn't 
>> support 8.x yet ... but, everything?  that's like pushing FreeBSD 4.x ...
>
> Because everything is tweakable... :-)
>
> in make.conf set
>
> DEFAULT_PGSQL_VER=81
>
> and be done.

Cool ... but why isn't DEFAULT to be 81 in the first place? :)  81 is 
backwards compatible to 74 servers, but 74 client isn't forward compatible 
to 81 ones :)

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664



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