From: John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Version on the yum.postgresql.org website
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:21:37 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <20150318161750.GA13998@momjian.us>
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On 3/18/2015 12:17 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.
Sure, I read this earlier, but if this is really the issue, then why are 9.3.4 and 9.3.5 both still available on the yum site? Isn't that also a sort of violation since the current
version of 9.3 is 9.3.6?
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Jay
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