Peter Eisentraut (pe...@gmx.net)

Ken Johanson wrote:
> Is there anything now, or in the works, for compatibility emulation? For
> example to setup my session to act like 8.2 and allow less-strict
> typing.

The best way to ensure 8.2 compatibility is to use 8.2.  But as casts are user 
definable, you can add back any casts you want.  Just don't add dozens of 
implicit casts and then come back here wondering why your application is
behaving strangely. :)

Am Dienstag, 5. Februar 2008 schrieb Pepe Barbe:
> I am interested in deploying PG 8.3.0 on one of our in-house appliance  
> product that is managed using RPMs and openSuse. Will there be RPMs  
> for Suse from PostgreSQL or should I wait until Suse releases their  
> own RPMs?

The plan is to get quasi-official RPMs for SUSE onto the openSUSE build
service.  The only thing holding this back at the moment is the lack of time 
for the people involved.

Am Dienstag, 5. Februar 2008 schrieb peter pilsl:
> The machine is a very old machine, that uses GNU ld 2.11.90.0.8 but it
> was able to compile and run postgres8.0.13 without any troubles.

Yes, it is a known problem that "old" Linux systems can't build newer
PostgreSQL releases.  You can edit the makefile and remove the export list, 
but there is no simpler or better-defined way available.

I am attempting to upgrade from 08.01.0200 to 08.03.0100.  I have attached my 
odbcinst.ini and .odbc.ini.  Connecting from psql and the old ODBC driver 
works fine, but the new one gives me "Communication error during
authentication" with the identical configuration and build options.  The 
driver log is attached.  How can I debug this?

Am Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008 schrieb Andre Nieder:
> So is there any reason that should prevent us from using PostgreSQL in
> combination with a compact flash?

I suggest you review the previous discussions on this topic.  Search 
for "compact flash" on archives.postgresql.org.  You will find that 
PostgreSQL very write-happy and you might have some work to do.