What is it with PostgreSQL 7.4.x ... ?

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Vivek Khera wrote:

>
> On May 16, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>> 
>> 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
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> DEFAULT_PGSQL_VER=81
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> 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 :)

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