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Debian PKG.

From
Jason Leach
Date:
hi,

Does anyone know of an update to the Debain 2.1 pgsql
package?  At the moment I have 6.3.x, and would like
to at least get up to 6.4 so I can compile the perl DBI and
DBD interfaces.

Also, what is generally more parctical to learn? Pgsql with
Perl or Java?  What's more commonly used as an interface
in a production system under Linux/Unix?

Thanks,
Jason

Re: [GENERAL] Debian PKG.

From
Stephane Bortzmeyer
Date:
On Monday 15 November 1999, at 19 h 29, the keyboard of Jason Leach
<jcl@mail.ocis.net> wrote:

> Does anyone know of an update to the Debain 2.1 pgsql
> package?

The package in "unstable" (alias "potato", the future Debian 2.2) is 6.5.2.
But, because the GNU libc maintainers broke the compatibility :-( you cannot
install it on Debian 2.1 ("slink"). It may be possible to recompile it on a
2.1 machine.

> At the moment I have 6.3.x, and would like
> to at least get up to 6.4 so I can compile the perl DBI and
> DBD interfaces.

They exist as Debian packages on Debian 2.1, they work fine and you don't have
to compile them.

> Also, what is generally more parctical to learn? Pgsql with
> Perl or Java?  What's more commonly used as an interface
> in a production system under Linux/Unix?

I use Perl.

Re: [GENERAL] Debian PKG.

From
"Oliver Elphick"
Date:
Jason Leach wrote:
  >Does anyone know of an update to the Debain 2.1 pgsql
  >package?  At the moment I have 6.3.x, and would like
  >to at least get up to 6.4 so I can compile the perl DBI and
  >DBD interfaces.

6.3.x is in the stable release of Debian; later versions of postgresql are
to be found in the unstable distribution.

  >Also, what is generally more parctical to learn? Pgsql with
  >Perl or Java?  What's more commonly used as an interface
  >in a production system under Linux/Unix?

My personal view of Java on Linux is that it is rather unstable and it is
difficult to get good free software.

Perl is much more reliable; however I haven't learnt it.  My own efforts are
devoted to making an Eiffel library to interface to libpq.

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