On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:44:24 -0800
Danny Auble <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yuri,
> 
> You might want to reconsider your choice for storage plugin. The postgres 
> plugin hasn't been maintained for quite sometime, and only contains a 
> fraction of functionality the mysql plugin brings. The original authors have 
> already abandoned it as well. With that said we will accept patches on the 
> current code like you have sent, but I just wanted to warn you before you go 
> too far down this path and wonder why things don't work the way you would 
> expect.

Ok, that's good to know. Is this written somewhere or did I miss it?
If the storage module is somewhat deprecated then it doesn't make much sense to 
keep it.

Any chance this is related to this issue? 
http://groups.google.com/group/slurm-devel/browse_thread/thread/62aba28f28ca599e

> On another note. While I don't discourage anyone from testing and developing 
> with the 2.4 branch I would strongly suggest using 2.3 on any production 
> cluster. In any pre-release version of the code the releases may or may not 
> be compatible with previous ones and could lead to job loss. It isn't clear 
> what kind of environment you are running in and I just wanted to give a 
> warning before it is too late. If you are just testing or developing then you 
> have chosen correctly though.

I'm using it alongside 2.1 for development/testing purposes. No real work is 
being produced with it, but I'm trying to use real workloads.

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