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Re: Ebuild of Postgres-8.3.8 almost a catastrophe

by Graham Murray :: Rate this Message:

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Stroller <stroller@...> writes:

> On 9 Nov 2009, at 10:25, Konstantinos Agouros wrote:

> I assume this is an upstream decision, and may be expected to apply to
> 8.3.9, 8.3.10, ... also? I have no reason to "wait and see if this is
> resolved", I should be careful to do a dump and restore next time I
> upgrade?

NO. It was not an upstream change. Upstream changed to integer
timestamps by default in 8.4.0, the default did not change between 8.3.7
and 8.3.8. However, in typical gentoo manner, this is configurable by
the pg-intdatetime USE flag, which is not enabled by default.

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