After 20 days of final polishing and maturing since the release candidate, the PostgreSQL team released the final 9.0 version today.
Hot off the press, I uploaded postgresql-9.0 final into Debian unstable; they will not go into Debian Squeeze, because Squeeze is frozen and it will take a long time to port all the packaged server side extensions to 9.0.
If you are on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS or Ubuntu 10.10, you can add my PostgreSQL backports for stable Ubuntu releases PPA, which will carry 9.0 until it can be moved to the official Ubuntu backports (i. e. when 9.0 goes into Ubuntu Natty).
Enjoy, and kudos to the PostgreSQL team!
#1 by pitti on 2011/06/14 - 07:39
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Same reason as for Debian Squeeze: We had to decide between supporting 8.4 with lots of packaged extensions, or 9.0 without any packaged extension. We preferred the former, and provide 9.0 through the PPA.
I don’t know about the PHP drivers. If there’s a backport of them from oneiric/sid that is a no-brainer, I’m happy to add it to the PPA.
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#2 by Dolf Andringa on 2011/10/21 - 16:35
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Hi Martin,
Any idea when 9.x will be included in lucid-backports? Oneiric has been released now and it includes postgresql-9.1. I am also using the contrib and postgis extensions to posgresl, so I’d prefer to use official ubuntu packages since they aren’t included in your ppa, and the official packages will continue getting updates, although backports is fine.
Cheers,
Dolf.
#3 by pitti on 2011/10/27 - 08:15
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You can use my backports PPA for this: https://launchpad.net/~pitti/+archive/postgresql
Unfortunately 9.1 does not backport to lucid without a newer debhelper, so this needs some more changes. If you’d like to see it there, please open a backport request, and we can discuss it there with the backporters:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#How_to_request_new_packages