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by manigandham 3194 days ago
That's more to do with the OS than the DB, and many repo entries are outdated. MSSQL hasnt existed on Linux before, but either way:

> I'm surprised at how many people seem to have taken issue with a simple comment.
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beefhash 3194 days ago
Due to Microsoft SQL Server licensing, I would be highly surprised if any Linux distribution were to make it available by default in their repositories.
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vetinari 3192 days ago
It's not that the OS supplied versions are outdated. They are updated whenever a minor release comes out.

The thing is, that you must migrate your database between major pgsql releases and you don't want your distro to force it on you. The community pgsql repo has the same rules - you have separate repo for each major release, so no surprises either.

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