Here's a third vote for upping to 9.6. We've been on 9.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 since December. No complaints.
Dan On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 8:33 AM Boyer, Jason A <[email protected]> wrote: > I would also shy away from making 10 the minimum for 3.4 because I worry > that we haven't shaken out the last compatibility issues, but I think we > should definitely aim for 10 or 11 for 3.5. I've been running 9.6 in > production since November so I would say it's a pretty safe choice to carry > us through 3.4. After our local upgrade to 3.3 I'm planning to hammer on > U18.04 and Pg10 more thoroughly. > > Jason > > -- > Jason Boyer > MIS Supervisor > Indiana State Library > http://library.in.gov/ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Open-ils-dev [mailto: > [email protected]] On > > Behalf Of Jason Stephenson > > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2019 3:41 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Time to increase the minimum required > version of > > PostgreSQL? > > > > **** This is an EXTERNAL email. Exercise caution. DO NOT open > attachments or > > click links from unknown senders or unexpected email. **** > > ________________________________ > > > > Galen, et al., > > > > I think it is too soon to require Pg 10. While we advertise Evergreen as > > working with Pg 10, we don't actually install it on Ubnuntu 18.04 via > > the prerequisites. We install Pg 9.6 instead. > > > > We've found a few places already where set returning functions have > > caused us hangups in Pg 10. I suspect that there are more of these > > hanging about in the database and in the storage and possibly other > > code. I've been meaning to do a lot more testing with Pg 10 lately, but > > I've been busy with other things as well. > > > > I think we should add a more comprehensive test suite to exercise all of > > the database code, including that in the Perl. I know this overly > > ambitious, and I don't have a lot of time to spare to work on it, > > myself, so it's easy to say, isn't it? > > > > Anyway, I don't have a problem with making Pg 9.6 the minimum required > > version for Evergreen 3.4, even thought that means that I will have to > > upgrade Pg as well. > > > > Just my thoughts, > > Jason > > > >
