As of postgresql 7.3's unmasking, it's been causing a lot of problems with compatability issues. They've removed a /lot/ of compatability deprecated things in PostgreSQL, and some that weren't even deprecated yet, just out of the blue with this release. phpPgAdmin, for example, is one program that will no longer work with PgSQL 7.3. Second of all, postgresql 7.3 removed some of it's libraries, in favor to split them out as seperate libraries. So far, this library includes libpq++, the C++ API library for PostgreSQL, of which things like KDE itself relies on for some of it's components. I don't yet think PostgreSQL 7.3 should be unmasked in Gentoo, though maybe 7.3.1 (which version? *chuckles*) might be more ready, but still there needs to be more portage packages for it, for the parts that were split out of the postgresql source tree itself.
Eric, Extremely excellent points. Do you know which libraries should be included within portage that the postgresql team left out? -r
Well, the ones that were seperated was libpq++, and ODBC.. I believe the JDBC ones are still there, and now also are compilable with the Sun-JDK 1.4.0 (this should also be made to include Sun-JDK 1.4.0, /not/ Blackdown-JDK or any other alternative, but explicitely the Sun-JDK.) My best guess, just off a whim, is libpq++, and postODBC, while postODBC itself, could be optional based on a USE flag. The big question of all, is.. libpq++ is one lib, but there's now a libpqxx, which is newer, and supercedes libpq++.. Should both be included? If they don't conflict, then yes.
7.3.3 fixes this
