On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Craig Ringer
<craig@postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
> On 21/03/2010 7:12 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Herouth Maoz<herouth@unicell.co.il>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> The problem is not so much danger in upgrading, but the fact that doing
>>> so
>>> without using the system's usual security/bugfix update path means
>>> non-standard work for the sysadmin, meaning he has to upgrade every
>>> package
>>> on the system using a different upgrade method, being notified about it
>>> from
>>> a different source, and needing to check each one in different
>>> conditions,
>>> which makes his work impossible. So the policy so far has been "Use the
>>> packages available through debian". So I'll need to check if there is an
>>> upgrade available through that path - and the question is whether it's
>>> worthwhile (i.e. whether the bug in question has indeed been fixed).
>>
>> I'm certain debian keeps the pgsql packages up to date within a few
>> days or at most weeks of their release .
>
> In sid (unstable), sure. But the stable releases don't usually see major
> version upgrades (like 8.3 to 8.4) unless they're done via unofficial
> channels like backports.org .
It was a few posts back, but our discussion point was minor point
upgrades and the fact that OP was running 8.3.1 and not sure there
were updates to 8.3.9 (or latest) out there for debian. I'm quite
sure debian has 8.3.9 out by now.