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

[Paul Ramsey]

+1

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 07:02:46AM -0400, 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.
>>
>>
>> +1
>> >From me.
>
> +1 from me, given _previous_ debian stable has 8.4.7...
>
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