[OPEN-ILS-DEV] PostgreSQL version support

[Chris Sharp]

+1 for your position, Galen.  Thanks!

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Galen Charlton" <gmc at esilibrary.com>
> To: "Evergreen Development Discussion List" <open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 10:15:42 PM
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] PostgreSQL version support
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I mentioned this in the email I sent just now, but this may be worth a
> separate thread.
> 
> I'd like to call folks attention to the discussion at the end of the
> following bug:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1505286
> 
> I had inadvertently introduced an idiom that doesn't work in Pg 9.1.
> While it's easy to resolve that and make the stored procedures
> compatible with 9.1, the situation sparked a discussion of whether to
> deprecate support for 9.1.
> 
> I encourage folks to read the discussion in the bug, but my position
> is that we should:
> 
> * announce a deprecation of 9.1 with the release of Evergreen 2.10
> * officially de-support 9.1 with the release of Evergreen 2.11 in the fall.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Galen
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