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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:15:04 +0200
From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
CC: PFC <lists@peufeu.com>, "Campbell, Lance" <lance@uiuc.edu>,
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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Configuration Tool for Dummies
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Tom Lane wrote:
> PFC <lists@peufeu.com> writes:
>>> What version of PostgreSQL are you using?
> 
>> 	I think newbies should be pushed a bit to use the latest versions,
> 
> How about pushed *hard* ?  I'm constantly amazed at the number of people
> who show up in the lists saying they installed 7.3.2 or whatever random
> version they found in a dusty archive somewhere.  "Please upgrade" is at
> least one order of magnitude more valuable configuration advice than
> anything else we could tell them.

(picking up an old thread while at a boring wait at the airport.. anyway)

I keep trying to think of more nad better ways to do this :-) Perhaps we
should put some text on the bug reporting form (and in the documentation
about bug reporting) that's basically "don't bother reporting a bug
unless you're on the latest in a branch, and at least make sure you're
on one of the maojr releases listed on www.postgresql.org"?

Seems reasonable?

//Magnus