People who have attempted to install PGDG versions of PostgreSQL on
recent Ubuntu releases have run into the cascading problem of postgresql
wanting to destroy Ubuntu.
Based on the packaging:
postgresql depends on postgresql-common
postgresql-common breaks logrotate (>3.8)
ubuntu-standard depends on logrotate
profit?...
It appears the reason for the claimed breakage is a very slight update
to logrotate that requires one to tell logrotate about files/directories
with non-"standard" ownership/permissions. Getting logrotate to stop
complaining is trivially resolved by the user by adding a single "su"
directive to the /etc/logrotate.d/postgresql-common or by having
PostgreSQL log to syslog.
It seems that "breaks" is overkill and the hassle imposed by that
declaration far exceeds any benefit therefrom.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Steve