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Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Jan 27 18:43:59 UTC 2007


Craig White wrote:

>>>> How is this a postgresql issue? Shouldn't the solution really be posted 
>>>> to the distributions that combine those packages in a way that caused 
>>>> the problem?
>>> ----
>>> probably - you're on the CentOS list though. You've seen that SELinux
>>> doesn't get much love there.
>> Consider the situation: you are running large applications built by 
>> teams of programmers that may no longer be around as the main source of 
>> income for your company.  When it starts breaking randomly because the 
>> operating system changes its mind about how it works, what kind of 
>> reaction would you expect?
> ----
> but CentOS doesn't alter things from upstream and upstream packager (Tom
> Lane) is already aware of my solution.

It is change over time that breaks things and costs money, not change 
between 2 current versions of the same thing.  Enterprises have this 
funny concept about keeping their business running and don't like 
surprises.  That's why they are using a unix-like OS in the first place.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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