Thread: Re: When replication?
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:04:54 -0400 (AST), The Hermit Hacker > wrote: > > >look in contrib for v7.1, or check out http://www.pgsql.com under > >downloads ... > > So it will be available in 7.1. When that scheduled to be out? > (is that the "current" branch?) > I went to the FAQ and read that there are "major releases" every > 4 months. > Are these like from 7.00 to 7.0X? When do changes like 7.00 to > 7.XX occur? > Is there a name to differentiate those two type of releases? We try for a 4month cycle, but, at times, the beta itself is taking a few months ... v7.1 was schedualed for Jan 1st of this year, but, beta has fleshed out some pretty big bugs, so its been taking a little longer then usual ... beta4 is sschedualed for Friday, and Bruce has something like 50 'open items' on his list of things to do before release ... he's trying to go through them to determine what aren't open'd anymnore ... slow process ...
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > We try for a 4month cycle, but, at times, the beta itself is taking a few > > months ... v7.1 was schedualed for Jan 1st of this year, but, beta has > > fleshed out some pretty big bugs, so its been taking a little longer > > So why not try for 6 month releases instead? > I would guess that most people want to get the DB when it is stable and > tested. > > > beta4 is sschedualed for Friday, and Bruce has something like 50 > > 'open items' > > Does PostgreSQL compiles directly from sources on FreeBSD? Is there an > easy way to try Betas? At work I have several machines that I could > use to install/try out Beta and help out with the testing. At work and > production boxes I am going to stick to whatever there is a port for > FreeBSD. The two best supported OSs for PostgreSQL are Linux and *BSD ... I run FreeBSD on several servers, and do periodic test runs of the latest snapshots (have to automate that one of these days) ... The mailing list search engine runs on a FreeBSD 4.2 box, using v7.0.3, and will be upgraded to v7.1 as soon as released ...
> We try for a 4month cycle, but, at times, the beta itself is taking a few > months ... v7.1 was schedualed for Jan 1st of this year, but, beta has > fleshed out some pretty big bugs, so its been taking a little longer So why not try for 6 month releases instead? I would guess that most people want to get the DB when it is stable and tested. > beta4 is sschedualed for Friday, and Bruce has something like 50 > 'open items' Does PostgreSQL compiles directly from sources on FreeBSD? Is there an easy way to try Betas? At work I have several machines that I could use to install/try out Beta and help out with the testing. At work and production boxes I am going to stick to whatever there is a port for FreeBSD.
* Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> [010125 20:02]: > > Does PostgreSQL compiles directly from sources on FreeBSD? Yes, it's in the ports tree. -- Rasputin Jack of All Trades :: Master of Nuns
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Rasputin wrote: > * Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> [010125 20:02]: > > > > Does PostgreSQL compiles directly from sources on FreeBSD? > > Yes, it's in the ports tree. > Rasputin > Jack of All Trades :: Master of Nuns I meant if I could compile it directly WITHOUT using ports. For example to try the latest beta or upgrade to a latest release before the ports is updated.
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:56:33AM -0500, some SMTP stream spewed forth: > > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Rasputin wrote: > > > * Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> [010125 20:02]: > > > > > > Does PostgreSQL compiles directly from sources on FreeBSD? > > > > Yes, it's in the ports tree. > > Rasputin > > Jack of All Trades :: Master of Nuns > > > I meant if I could compile it directly WITHOUT using ports. > For example to try the latest beta or upgrade to a latest release before > the ports is updated. Such works with at least newer than 7.0.3, I have no experience with earlier versions. You should have no trouble at all. (FreeBSD is nice that way.) gh >
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Rasputin wrote: > > > * Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> [010125 20:02]: > > > > > > Does PostgreSQL compiles directly from sources on FreeBSD? > > > > Yes, it's in the ports tree. > > Rasputin > > Jack of All Trades :: Master of Nuns > > > I meant if I could compile it directly WITHOUT using ports. > For example to try the latest beta or upgrade to a latest release before > the ports is updated. I've never had a problem with compiling PgSQL under FreeBSD since we first started developing it way way back in the v1.01 days ... out of the 6 core developers, two are FreeBSD (Vadim and myself), one is BSDi (Bruce), one is Linux (Thomas Lockhart) and ... Jan/Tom, I haven't got a clue :)