[Gllug] Sluggishness and confusion

[Martin A. Brooks]

Peter Childs wrote:

> Sorry miss type 8.0.1 is what I meant... I read the postgres Debian 
> dev list and there where quite a few moans that Postgres 8.0 beta and 
> release candidates were not being debised even in experimental.



If the Debian packages simply dumped software on your harddrive then, 
yes, you might have a point.

Debian packages try harder.  The postgres package, for example, includes 
an upgrade facility that's required for major version updates.  The 
package will take your old version of postgres, back up your databases, 
dump the databases out, replace your old version of postgres and then 
reload your databases for you.  If it screws up then you have a 
downgrade path.

Last time I checked the RPM package didn't do this kind of thing.

Mart.
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