> However, keep in mind that Debian Sarge (stable) is currently at
> PostgreSQL 7.3. If you're running Sarge, you'll either have to add
> Etch (testing) repositories or download the PostgreSQL packages
> from Etch repositories. Since Etch is nearing release (which could
> mean anything in the Debian world) I suspect you won't have any
> major problems even if you do this.
I prefer Debian on my servers too, but running a mixed mode
system with packages from stable, testing and possibly
unstable will give you major headaches, when software depends
on different library versions or even different libraries than
those already installed on your machine.
Instead try www.backports.org, which offers a lot of
backported packages for stable. Right now their top news is :)
# I'm going to remove postgresql-8.0 from the backports.org
# archive. It's was already removed from Debian, and the last
# version of the Debian package which was available is vulnerable
# to CVE-2006-2313 and CVE-2006-2314, hence the backport is
# also affected.
# Please upgrade to the postgresql-8.1 backport.
Regards
Jan