Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 09:04:38AM +0200, Hannes Dorbath wrote:
>> This god like faith of some admins in package maintainers, that they
>> know what's right, good and stable for them, sometimes really worries me.
> The problem is the mismatch between what distrbuters want and what the
> postgres team wants. For distributors "stable" means no behavioural
> changes, whereas the postgresql team does bug fixes, some of which
> definitly make behavioural changes that would make previously working
> programs break.
I think we have a pretty good track record of not doing that except when
it's forced by a need to plug a security hole.
However, distributors certainly have more constraints than one could
wish. For instance, at Red Hat I can't just push a new Postgres update
into RHEL releases at my whim --- there are company constraints based on
available QA resources and suchlike. So sometimes the RHEL version of
PG lags behind the community version just because of manpower/scheduling
issues. They have been pretty good about letting me push security
updates promptly, though.
regards, tom lane