Comment 6 for bug 236749

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 236749] Re: Does not build for PostgreSQL 8.2 (or earlier)

Stuart Bishop [2008-06-09 8:50 -0000]:
> The use case for this bug is migrating to PG 8.2 from PG 8.3 with little
> downtime. This is not possible on either Gutsy or Hardy without manually
> building slony1 from source, as slony1 isn't available for PG 8.3 in
> Gutsy.

The idea is that you upgrade gutsy to hardy, which won't uninstall the
8.2 packages (you'll just get a debconf note about the deprecated 8.2
and instructions how to update the package).

> If we had packages available somewhere, a PPA or just a .deb uploaded
> somewhere, we will be fine as far as Launchpad is concerned.

The one in gutsy should work fine:

  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/slony1/postgresql-8.2-slony1_1.2.9-3_i386.deb