PostgreSQL 9 for F14?

Gerald Henriksen ghenriks at gmail.com
Tue Sep 21 00:52:12 UTC 2010


On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:26:53 -0400, you wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Michel Alexandre Salim
><fedora at michelsylvain.info> wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:13:42 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>>> No, I'm not advocating PgSQL 9 for F14, however, it shouldn't be so
>>> far-fetched that Fedora could have any software at any time.
>>
>> A Fedora update policy is being hashed out, and even before that, the
>> consensus is really against introducing major updates in stable releases.
>> It's not really "anything goes" as your statement seems to imply.
>
>A parallel update is a major update requiring a 6 month wait in Fedora now?

I would guess that the PostgreSQL maintainer(s) would prefer to only
maintain one version in Fedora at a time.

Really though, if people wanted PostgreSQL 9 in Fedora 14 they should
have started asking about it or working on it months ago, getting it
into Rawhide before the Fedora 14 split.


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