pgadmin3 - now it’s getting personal
Monday, February 18th, 2008I really don’t mind if Debian lags behind with package versions. And I’ve gotten used to running an ancient version of “pgadmin3″ (the GUI client for PostgreSQL). But now that I upgraded a few pgsql servers from 8.2 to 8.3 and started pgadmin3 I was surprised - in a not at all fun way. Several warnings were displayed. Googling a little I found the cause:
“pgAdmin 1.6.x doesn’t support PostgreSQL 8.3.x. Upgrade to 1.8″
How funny. pgadmin3 in Debian depends on wxwidgets and apparently the current version of wxwidgets didn’t make it into Sid for stability reasons or whatever. So now I’m running into trouble with PostgreSQL 8.3. Somehow I can’t laugh about that. Alright… downgrading to 8.2 again. Is that even possible? Okay, pg_dropcluster and get my backup tapes out.