On Tue, 05 May 2009 13:10 +1000, "Tim Starling" <[email protected]> wrote: > Karun Dambiec wrote: > > Hello, > > I have been looking at some of the bugs relating to PostGreSQL, and have > > found that I am not sure if some of them could be considered to be bugs > > with MediaWiki. For example > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16937 > > As they relate to it not working with a particular version of PostGreSQL > > which is 7 years old or so. > > > > Do we have a minimum version of PostGreSQL that MediaWiki should work > > with? > > Yes, 8.1. If you try to use one that is earlier, the web installer > will give an error message. The issue on bug 16937 is that the user > claims he has a recent version of PostgreSQL installed, but the server > is reporting a protocol version which is consistent with 7.3 or > earlier. Later comments suggest that this is because his PHP client > library is broken. >
Would it be suitable if I made a change to the page about PostGreSQL at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PostgreSQL, to say it does not work with earlier versions than 8.1, and a protocol version of 3 or later being supported by the PHP client library? Regards _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
