Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YYGjN-0003fp-PW for pgsql-admin@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:22:05 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YYGjM-00028p-6f for pgsql-admin@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:22:04 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YYGjA-0001qH-Rh for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:21:52 +0000 Received: from mail-yh0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c01::22d]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YYGj0-0004zU-TD for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:21:49 +0000 Received: by yhpt93 with SMTP id t93so16721039yhp.0 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:21:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JEmz3a3pAtFb3SDt932RpetMDiQd3V+lEHo0rv+pI2s=; b=Zd7gA5Kpw6DKOap6zxlhtEOV0VN0FwzbvP9oyJwb+ubRQbTzMyPStpy1Yzxe98WE0f N4Tlpprk3xqaJsBYEl1qWersIJOF8FhzhAviv4fjzuHI7CTfmZIJWJ84bnQdc+0qbbvk IiNwHrCdpF6b/RtsN1mnrv4AQh3Jo/WXXV0a4WjdGztPy+JsZWJI/ka/MKU0lUg0FoAe 8dcuFjRuPpBzedk/YgsoJKPyBqQZGl48XrBhsXYkVx8C/21kBPeJEBbIJp5pQMgVty4O fwknek8MW03vymbM4GbcmBRbThNVsK/l9Mk2+svkCO/otwRHUB0o1iQHOjM+PHbd1sdx q2DA== X-Received: by 10.236.2.104 with SMTP id 68mr73313751yhe.54.1426695700813; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:21:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.254.2] (h77.89.102.166.static.ip.windstream.net. [166.102.89.77]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id f96sm14881354yhq.39.2015.03.18.09.21.39 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:21:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5509A611.9010408@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:21:37 -0400 From: John Scalia User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Momjian CC: "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" Subject: Re: Version on the yum.postgresql.org website References: <5509A2A2.90305@gmail.com> <20150318161750.GA13998@momjian.us> In-Reply-To: <20150318161750.GA13998@momjian.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pg-Spam-Score: -2.7 (--) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-admin Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org 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? -- Jay -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin