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

[Sandro Santilli]

+1 for dropping PostgreSQL 9.0 support --strk;

On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 05:07:56PM -0400, Paragon Corporation 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