Support for PostgreSQL 9.x (was Re: [ELGIS] Repo Madness [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED])

[Mathieu Baudier]

> On our servers we do run EL6 with PG 9.1 from yum.postgresql.org for the
> above mentioned streaming replication, that some customers required. But,
> from the POV of ELGIS, I'm not so sure that forcing users to remove the
> native PostgreSQL and force them to switch to 9.1 is that good. If you do
> not need treaming replication, 8.4 is a very fine PostgreSQL release. Think
> of people paying support for RHEL: If they do have issues with PostgreSQL,
> then they can not rely on Red Hat support , any more.

I think we all agree that we should primarily support postgresql(84)

> There is even a large overlap between packages in ELGIS and in pgdg, e.g
> proj, geos, postgis, .... We could think of something like 2 EL versione,
> one for standard EL6, one for EL6 + pgdg. But that would increase the
> complexity sensibly. Some packages, like PostGIS, tend to be more complex in
> upstream Fedora and pgdg, since multiple PostgreSQL versions (9.0, 9.1) are
> now possible.

We could think of an additional repo based on the latest version of
PostgreSQL. We the right tools this doesn't have to be too complex.
But only if there is interest of course (we, Argeo, are not interested
at this stage, we are happy with base 8.4)