Is there any opposition to dropping all unsupported PostgreSQL versions from MacPorts? That would be any version of PostgreSQL before 12. Version 12 runs out of support later this year.
Right now none of the unsupported versions will build in MacPorts without backporting patches[0]. I don't think it's impossible to get them building again, the PostgreSQL codebase moves slowly and patches can probably be made to apply, I just don't think the effort is justified if there aren't any users on these old versions. Note that psql and the client library (libpq) are backwards compatible going back many versions. You can use newer versions of psql with older databases. These ports are only useful if you need to run a specific version of the PostgreSQL server itself. [0] at least https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/400928b83bd254d20f0790d467f221bb52707e6e but I'm sure there are more gotchas as you go further back. -- David Gilman :DG<
