From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 16 21:38:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41CF116AA71 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 21:38:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F8BC43D69 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 21:38:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4DDF290C2B; Tue, 16 May 2006 18:38:15 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 87281-05; Tue, 16 May 2006 18:38:19 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558F1290C1E; Tue, 16 May 2006 18:38:15 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1A73E5D655; Tue, 16 May 2006 18:38:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14CCF47F51; Tue, 16 May 2006 18:38:21 -0300 (ADT) Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 18:38:20 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Vivek Khera In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060516183739.J1279@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060516144949.F1279@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd ports Subject: Re: What is it with PostgreSQL 7.4.x ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 21:38:29 -0000 On Tue, 16 May 2006, Vivek Khera wrote: > > On May 16, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> >> Why does it appear that the default postgresql install for everything is >> stuck at 7.4? I can understand for aolserver/openacs, since it doesn't >> support 8.x yet ... but, everything? that's like pushing FreeBSD 4.x ... > > Because everything is tweakable... :-) > > in make.conf set > > DEFAULT_PGSQL_VER=81 > > and be done. Cool ... but why isn't DEFAULT to be 81 in the first place? :) 81 is backwards compatible to 74 servers, but 74 client isn't forward compatible to 81 ones :) ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664