[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Time to increase the minimum required version of PostgreSQL?

[Daniel Wells]

Here's a third vote for upping to 9.6.  We've been on 9.6 on Ubuntu 16.04
since December.  No complaints.

Dan

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 8:33 AM Boyer, Jason A <JBoyer at library.in.gov>
wrote:

> I would also shy away from making 10 the minimum for 3.4 because I worry
> that we haven't shaken out the last compatibility issues, but I think we
> should definitely aim for 10 or 11 for 3.5. I've been running 9.6 in
> production since November so I would say it's a pretty safe choice to carry
> us through 3.4. After our local upgrade to 3.3 I'm planning to hammer on
> U18.04 and Pg10 more thoroughly.
>
> Jason
>
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> version of
> > PostgreSQL?
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> > Galen, et al.,
> >
> > I think it is too soon to require Pg 10. While we advertise Evergreen as
> > working with Pg 10, we don't actually install it on Ubnuntu 18.04 via
> > the prerequisites.  We install Pg 9.6 instead.
> >
> > We've found a few places already where set returning functions have
> > caused us hangups in Pg 10.  I suspect that there are more of these
> > hanging about in the database and in the storage and possibly other
> > code.  I've been meaning to do a lot more testing with Pg 10 lately, but
> > I've been busy with other things as well.
> >
> > I think we should add a more comprehensive test suite to exercise all of
> > the database code, including that in the Perl.  I know this overly
> > ambitious, and I don't have a lot of time to spare to work on it,
> > myself, so it's easy to say, isn't it?
> >
> > Anyway, I don't have a problem with making Pg 9.6 the minimum required
> > version for Evergreen 3.4, even thought that means that I will have to
> > upgrade Pg as well.
> >
> > Just my thoughts,
> > Jason
> >
>
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