Re: Postgres: 7.4 or 8.0?

Julian ''Julik'' Tarkhanov
2005-11-08T16:27:15Z

On 5-nov-2005, at 22:08, alex black wrote:

> hey all,
>
> I''m starting up a couple projects with rails and have decided to
> switch to switch to postgres from mysql. It feels older and more
> solid.
>
> Anyway, I''m also running debian sarge and 8.0 isn''t even
in
> backports. I''m willing to compile from source, but only if people
> think 8.0 is really worth it.
>
> Anyone have opinions..  robby?

I love 8.0, in the first place because Unicode works much better (7.x
did not have Unicode case conversions and normalizations)

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Julian "Julik" Tarkhanov