PSC Vote: Drop PostGIS 3.0

[Paul Ramsey]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

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> Paul it says in 3.4, you put in support for PG19?  So I presume the notes
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Erm, it's not impossible that I back-patched whatever pg19 thing I did to
3.4. I do try to push that stuff back, because it makes working with
multiple postgis versions easier, as I don't have to keep constantly
changing up what pg version I'm running. Within limits anyways.

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> https://gitea.osgeo.org/postgis/postgis/src/branch/stable-3.4/NEWS
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> *From:* Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski <me at komzpa.net>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 26, 2025 4:47 AM
> *To:* Laurențiu Nicola <lnicola at dend.ro>
> *Cc:* PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* Re: PSC Vote: Drop PostGIS 3.0
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> +1 from Darafei to drop 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4. (feel free to reuse this
> vote in future if we drop not all of them this time).
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> Do we have something to release in those branches now?
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> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM Laurențiu Nicola <lnicola at dend.ro> wrote:
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> Does this let us clean up anything else (support for EOL Postgres 12-13 or
> old GEOS), or is it mostly to reduce the backporting effort for fixes?
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> It's less about backporting efforts and more to control the expectation if
> bugs are going to get fixed in this iteration.
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> For Postgres and GEOS there is usually a separate vote, when someone
> decides to double-check what is bundled nowadays in popular distros
> (Ubu/Deb/RH) and what's become obsolete to lift up the horizon.
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> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025, at 01:27, Regina Obe wrote:
> > I think it's about time to say bye bye to PostGIS 3.0.
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> > I'd like to say bye bye to PostGIS 3.1, but feels kinda dirty to drop 2
> > versions in one go.
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> > Thoughts?
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> > +1 for dropping PostGIS 3.0
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