[postgis-devel] PSC Vote to officially drop support for PostgreSQL 8.3 in PostGIS 2.0

Paul Ramsey pramsey at opengeo.org
Thu Apr 21 15:54:22 PDT 2011


-1 means "veto and I'll do what it takes to make my position stick".
So you're OK being 8.3 compatibility tester and fixer?

P.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> On 14/04/11 12:02, Paragon Corporation wrote:
>
>> I hereby call a PSC Vote to officially drop support for PostgreSQL 8.3 in
>> PostGIS 2.0.
>>
>> I think enough has been said on the topic that it is clear to me
>> PostgreSQL
>> 8.3 is becoming a bit of a burden to maintain
>> for both regression testing and as well as having to hold back on features
>> introduced in newer versions of PostgreSQL.
>>
>> With this official drop we will then be available to take advantage of
>>
>> 1) Window functions, CTES, variadic functions, RETURN QUERY EXECUTE, CASE
>> in
>> pl/pgsql, EXECUTE using, user-defined exceptions,
>>   and a slew of other features itemized in PostgreSQL feature matrix
>> http://www.postgresql.org/about/featurematrix
>>
>> 2) Not have to regress test against 8.3 any longer
>> 3) Get rid of the stupid hack we have in place for pgxs
>> 4) Get rid of that conditional logic we have in place for aggregation to
>> handle versions that don't support windowing
>>
>> This is just one step, but my more aggressive requirement which I shall
>> put
>> in as a second PSC Vote, is to not support more than
>> 3 versions of PostgreSQL on any version of PostGIS unless there are
>> extenuating circumstances.  More on that later.
>>
>> All PSC voters, please give your vote.
>
> I'm probably in the minority, but -1 from me.
>
>
> ATB,
>
> Mark.
>
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