Re: psql

     Richard Huxton writes

> Daniel Verite wrote:
> > You probably need to purge the postgresql-client package
> > as well, so that your shell will find /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql
> > which should be the one that you installed from source.
>
> I believe there is a "backports" repository with up-to-date versions you
> can just apt-get though. Any Debianites like to go on the record as to
> how to set that up?

That should be as simple as adding the following entry to the
/etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ woody postgresql

And then
# apt-get update
# apt-get install postgresql

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