Re: postgresql 7.3

[Patrick Macdonald <patrickm@redhat.com>]

Hi Jonathan,

We will be providing a PostgreSQL - Red Hat Edition iso towards the
end of April.  However, it will contain pristine PostgreSQL 7.3.x
community binaries/source. You may want to download the current rpms
from Red Hat which are already at this level.

Cheers,
Patrick


Jonathan Sand wrote:
> can you give me an approximate timeframe for redhat's release of rhdb 
> based on postgresql 7.3?
> 
> my problem is that I'm using redhat bugzilla 2.15 with a database 
> created with bugzilla based on mysql. I've managed to transfer the data 
> out of mysql and into postgres (no small feat), and bugzilla runs, but 
> it has a few bugs. I've, since then, downloaded redhat bugzilla 2.17, 
> only to discover that the schema expected in this version are quite 
> different. among the many changes, one of them can't be performed by 
> rhdb 2.1 (postgresql 7.2.3).
> 
> specifically: several of the tables contain essentially identical data 
> (eg, products.value and bugs.product) with data type varchar. this being 
> inefficient as a primary key and foreign key, these column definitions 
> are being replaced by integer primary keys and integer references, 
> respectively. postgres 7.3 allows the following sql:
> 
> alter table products add id int;
> ... set new unique values in this new id column ....
> alter table products alter id set not null;
> alter table products add primary key(id);
> 
> postgresql 7.2.3 doesn't allow that the "set not null" column constraint 
> be applied in an "alter" statement and the "add primary key" can only be 
> applied to columns which are designated as "not null." a neat and 
> frustrating shutout.
> 
> I suppose I could dump the database and reconstruct the schema 
> correctly, but I'd then have to seriously modify the redhat bugzilla 
> setup code. moral of this story? the bleeding edge is not for whimps.
> 
> sand@gizmolab.com
> 
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