Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:17:50 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Version on the yum.postgresql.org website
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:06:58PM -0400, John Scalia wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm not sure of policy on the yum.postgresql.org website, but I have a small difficulty. We haven't yet upgraded beyond 9.3.3, and that's been working fairly well for us. For an
> upcoming project, we need to build out a new environment from scratch, which means being able to download everything from either the RedHat yum sites or from 3rd party yum sites.
> Well, the older 9.3.3 version isn't on the postgresql site anymore. Now 9.3.4 and above are, but that means a whole new and time-consuming round of testing if we migrate up. Is
> there any chance of putting the older 9.3.3 instance back on the yum site? Or is some major flaw with 9.3.3 that should motivate us to get off it immediately?

I think you need to read this, and do all minor upgrades when they are
available:

	http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/

	The community considers not upgrading to be riskier than
	upgrading.

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