Hello! We'd like to deprecate some fairly old and crusty PostgreSQL versions (anything older than 8.4) for use with PuppetDB. There are a few reasons we want to do this:
* 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 have been EOL by upstream for quite some time now, and 8.3 goes EOL in a couple of weeks: http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/ * Those earlier versions don't support certain features that are critical to making certain operations usable (most notably, we need GIN indexes to make searches based on tags fast enough to be practical). * The only distro Puppet Labs supports that still ships with one of these older versions is RHEL5. The "postgresql" package will give you version 8.1. There are vendor-supported packages for 8.4 available, though they aren't the default: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2010-0276.html * This isn't about forcing people to use the latest-and-greatest. PostgreSQL 8.4, which we'll continue to support, was released in July of 2009. :) * By all current indicators, extremely few users will be impacted by this. Nearly all users are already on a suitably recent db version, or are on a platform where the available default packages are recent enough. I'm only aware of a handful of PuppetDB users on 8.1, and I've not heard of a single person using 8.2 or 8.3. So what we'd like to do: * Add a deprecation warning into the next 1.x release of PuppetDB * Fix up our puppet module to install a suitable version of postgresql, even on rhel5 * provide some basic instructions on migrating data from one database version to the next * drop support in PuppetDB 2.0 _at the earliest_, and even then not before the above migration instructions and module fixes are released Let us know if this will ruin your plans for World Puppet Domination, either here on on IRC (talk to grim_radical, nlew, or cprice)! deepak -- Deepak Giridharagopal / Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
