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[Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stuart Bishop wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > In the most recent launchpad-dependencies upload, Michael Barnett added
> > > slony1-bin and postgresql-8.3-slony1 to launchpad-database-dependencies.
> > >
> > > I can see how these would be wanted in production, but are they really
> > > needed for development?
> >
> > If you want to run a local replicated environment for testing, yes.
> >
> > (make -C database/replication devsetup)
> >
> > I'm probably the only person who has ever done this though.
> >
> > > I ask because Lucid doesn't ship postgresql-8.3-slony1 - it has
> > > postgresql-8.4-slony1 instead - and before I look at making a build in
> > > the PPA, I'd like to know whether that's actually needed.
> >
> > I need slony1-bin & postgresql-8.4-slony1 and the identical version of
> > slony as postgresql-8.3-slony1 for Hardy too while you are there  ;)
>
> Hmm.. there's not even a postgresql-8.4 in Hardy, I dare say you need
> that first before you worry about slony :-)

pitti maintains backports in his PPA (https://launchpad.net/~pitti/+archive/postgresql), but according to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/431157 it should be in backports now.


> > No tests depend on this so we can drop things for now and revisit before
> > Staging gets updated to Lucid.
>
> Well, Lucid's not that far off. So I left it alone and put a version of
> slony reverted to building against 8.3 into the Launchpad PPA for lucid,
> rather than roll back the meta-lp-deps change.

Ta. That will be useful if we can't migrate PostgreSQL to 8.4 before we migrate the servers to lucid.


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