[postgis-devel] VOTE: Drop PostgreSQL 9.0 support at PostGIS 2.2

[Magnus Hagander]

On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> I think we discussed this but didn't come to an official consensus.
>
> Before we branch to 2.2 in the next couple fo weeks, I'd like to get this
> out of the way.
>
> As I have said reasons for dropping
>
> 1) Too many PostgreSQL to test and if we ain't going to test it we shouldn't
> be saying we support it.
> 2) Dropping 9.0, all versions left will support extensions which means
> getting rid of that conditional extension check.
> 3) Raster and PostGIS have some legacy code to handle 9.0 in basic postgis
> the knn gist operators are not supported in 9.0
> In case of raster, Bborie had to put in some logic for 9.0 for the way it
> handles aggregates.
>
> It will also make the post-check I'm proposing a tad easier as it would only
> do extension testing:
> http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/2358
>
> Thoughts, concerns, vote

I'd suggest you check with packagers for the different distributions
if this is going to cause some issues for them. If it's going to cause
a lot of extra downstream work there, it might be better to take the
pain upstream, since it's only once.

Assuming you're still going to support he old branches, though, I
don't see any problem at all in the general idea :)

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