Chris,

On 2011-09-24 03:36, Chris Travers wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Philip Rhoades <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Chris,
>>
>>
>> On 2011-09-24 03:09, Chris Travers wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Philip Rhoades 
>>> <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Chris,
>>>>
>>>
>>>> It is not really critical for me - I just thought it would be nice
>>>> to
>>>> have all packages that are required to be installed in one go (I
>>>> would
>>>> normally have PG installed already anyway).
>>>>
>>> The major reason to consider a separate package would be that 1.3
>>> relies on the contrib modules which are packaged separately.  So
>>> having something which requires both the server and the contrib
>>> modules to be installed might be nice (with .debs, one can list the
>>> dependencies as optional, but that's not an option with rpms).
>>
>>
>> OK, sounds good.
>>
>>
>>> So I am thinking of just creating a separate rpm with the 
>>> additional
>>> dependencies.  this isn't such an issue beyond 1.3, because it 
>>> isn't
>>> clear we need the contrib modules if we are willing to require Pg 
>>> 8.4
>>> or higher.
>>
>>
>> Pg 9.x is not in the lsmb roadmap and it will probably be the 
>> standard
>> soon . . how many using lsmb have talked about DB replication etc?
>>
> 9.x is supported.  1.3.x is tested mostly currently on 8.3-9.0.  I
> don't know of any reason why 9.1 would cause issues.
>
> But supporting and requiring are different.  1.3 doesn't use any new
> features added since 8.1, so that's the minimum version it can
> theoretically run on.  8.1 is only supported through a few vendors
> anymore and so given that security fixes are not available through
> postgresql.org anymore, I don't officially support it.  A lot of
> development/testing occurred on 8.2.  I don't advertise support on 
> 8.2
> because it is nearing end of life, and 8.3 makes it easier to add 
> full
> text indexing in a forward-compatible way.  Unofficially, I believe 
> it
> runs.
>
> Going forward though, and requiring 8.4 for 1.4 would allow us to use
> WITH RECURSIVE instead of connectby(), and thus we can get rid of 
> both
> the tsearch2 and tablefunc dependencies.


That all sounds good - I am just doing my own thing now so I don't have 
to worry about client's server stability or anything anymore so for 
myself I will just use whatever the current version of Fedora uses - and 
that is still 8.4 at the moment.  It is not likely I will have to think 
about DB replication again either.

Thanks,

Phil.
-- 
Philip Rhoades

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