[Gllug] Linux box keeps rebooting

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Mon Dec 12 01:03:15 UTC 2005


On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Martin A. Brooks suggested tentatively:
> Postgres 7 has a longer history in debian.  If the user specifically
> wants postgres 8 they can have it, otherwise debian defaults to the
> safest, most tested, option.

That's still a rather strange reason: or, rather, it's just as
applicable to PostgreSQL 6.0...

(I expect a fuller reason is `the packager's policy changed to not
upgrade between major versions, and the change happened in the 7.x
timeframe', right?)

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