Hello Ansgar, Christoph,

Christoph Berg [2012-08-01 21:12 +0200]:
> The various postgresql-* packages are mostly plugins (PL/something)

Right, postgresql-X.Y-foo are server-side plugins which are specific
to a major PostgreSQL server version. They need to be versioned just
like PostgreSQL itself for upgrades, parallel installability, etc.

> which follow the example of postgresql-plperl-x.y (built from PG
> core). For real applications like barman, that's not really
> necessary.

Where "real applications" == client-side PostgreSQL users, i. e. which
only use libpq, not build against postgresql-server-dev-X.Y.

Martin
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Fwiw, I'm not saying packages must not use the postgresql namespace, I'd just leave it to the maintainer to decide.





Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> schrieb:
Hello Ansgar, Christoph,

Christoph Berg [2012-08-01 21:12 +0200]:
> The various postgresql-* packages are mostly plugins (PL/something)

Right, postgresql-X.Y-foo are server-side plugins which are specific
to a major PostgreSQL server version. They need to be versioned just
like PostgreSQL itself for upgrades, parallel installability, etc.

> which follow the example of postgresql-plperl-x.y (built from PG
> core). For real applications like barman, that's not really
> necessary.

Where "real applications" == client-side PostgreSQL users, i. e. which
only use libpq, not build against postgresql-server-dev-X.Y.

Martin
--
Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debi
an
Developer (www.debian.org)