On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Adam Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Any new installation of LSMB would, presumably, also occur on a new OS. > Upgrades are a different problem, of course. The two most conservative > OSes/distros are generally Debian and Red Hat. Red Hat (and CentOS, SL, > etc.) defaults to Pg8.1 for the package name "postgres", but also supply > Pg8.4 under the package name "postgres84". > Were it not for that, I would argue that you should only support >= Pg9.0. > However, given that RHEL5.x is still considered a mainstream, viable > system, and continues to be installed anew (I did one last week) it's a > useful benchmark. > I don't know what Debian or RHEL6 provide. I guess I am looking at this a little differently but along similar lines. The big issue here is that when you look at an upgrade you are talking about something that is not only on an existing OS, but also presumably on an existing RDBMS. Insisting, as a general policy, that we support all existing versions of Pg will probably get us nowhere. At some point it is worth insisting that users who want to upgrade also upgrade their RDBMS. I think we should tie this to two considerations: 1) Are there new features in new versions we NEED. This was the original reason for requiring 8.1 on 1.3. 2) What versions have easy to obtain, long-term support options available? I personally think it is worth tying this to what versions are maintained at postgresql.org and seeing support from the likes of Red Hat to be transitional only. In other words, the programs are nearing end of life there, and should be upgraded at earliest convenience anyway. Given that the window is fairly small, delaying an upgrade of the accounting software to coincide with an upgrade of the database software doesn't strike me as a major problem. The fact is that nearly all the maintenance effort goes into the versions on Postgresql.org's web site. I guess so my question in whether this is reasonable is whether it is worth supporting database systems that are about to be (or have been) EOL'd by commercial vendors Best Wishes, Chris Travers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
