On 05/11/2011 09:28 PM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 12:25 -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>>
>>> I would stringly prefer to stay on 5.10 from squeeze if that is
>> doable, manual backporting of such a huge package like perl with its
>> millions of forward and reverse dependencies will cause no end of
>> pain :(
>>> Running the (available) postgresql 9.0 backport is a breeze compared
>> to that however.
>>
>> Well, if I could compile 5.12, I'd install it in /usr/local/. No need
>> to replace the system Perl at all. That's how I generally work with
>> this stuff: Leave the system Perl for system tasks; build my own Perl
>> for the apps I build.
>
> We immortalks are reading a thread between a developer and sysadmins :)
spot on :P - but the fact is that the postgresql infrastructure is
maintained by the postgresql.org SYSADMIN team and NOT the
postgresql.org developers (as in -hackers) :)
Stefan
