I prefer Debian packages wherever possible. That will provide you with
the easiest manageability in the long run for maintaining updates. It's
hard to beat "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo
apt-get autoclean" as a complete patch script.
However, keep in mind that Debian Sarge (stable) is currently at
PostgreSQL 7.3. If you're running Sarge, you'll either have to add Etch
(testing) repositories or download the PostgreSQL packages from Etch
repositories. Since Etch is nearing release (which could mean anything
in the Debian world) I suspect you won't have any major problems even if
you do this.
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Brandon Aiken
CS/IT Systems Engineer
-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of
nuggets72@free.fr
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 7:26 AM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] Installation with sources or with packages
Hello,
I need install postgresql 8.X.X on my debian host.
But someone says me I should use sources files for the install
and other one says me I should use debian package.
Does anybody have some "theory" or opinion about the installation of
postgresql
by sources or debian package ?
What's the most reliable/best solution to install AND UPDATE the sgbdr
during
his all life ?
thanks for your help.
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