[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Postgres requirements for 2.12 and 3.0

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi Jason,

+1 from me on keeping support for Wheezy and Trusty through release 3.0.

Since I heard no other objections to the recommendation, I'm going to 
update release notes and other documents with the recommendation to use 
9.4. I'll also send out a message to the general list with this information.

Thank you!

Kathy

On 03/02/2017 10:10 AM, Jason Stephenson wrote:
> I have no issues with it. I just wanted to add that Ben Shum and I have
> been working on making Pg 9.4 the defaults for new installs with Ubuntu
> 14.04 Trusty Tahr and Debian 7 Wheezy. This is based on work started by
> Chris Sharp. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1493824
>
> In general, I don't think sites should be doing new installs with Trusty
> and Wheezy, but we still have issues with some lesser-used bits of
> Evergreen on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus and Debian 8 Jessie.
>
> We also keep the latest two LTS releases of Ubuntu and the latest two
> releases of Debian available in the Makefiles.  We should keep them up
> to date since they are there.
>
> For reference Debian 7 Wheezy has LTS from the Debian community until
> May 2018. Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr has LTS from Canonical and the
> community through April 2019. These dates coincide rather closely with
> the end of life dates for Postgres 9.4 and Evergreen releases 2.12 and 3.0.
>
> I am trying to make the preemptive case for keeping support for Wheezy
> and Trusty in mainline Evergreen through release 3.0 with PostgreSQL 9.4
> as the baseline database.
>
> Cheers,
> Jason

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