[postgis-users] PostGIS on PostgreSQL < 8.0

Rob McCulley RMcCulley at county24.com
Fri Sep 7 13:51:21 PDT 2007


>Hi Paul,
>
>> How many folks are using the latest PostGIS on PgSQL < 8.0?
>>  From a development point-of-view, the quantity of 
>> backwards-compatibility code is growing and growing, and that makes
the 
>> code base a lot less pleasant.
>
>I vote to remove the legacy code and say that PostGIS 1.4 and greater 
>only works with postgresql 8.2 (I suppose maybe 8.1?) and greater.
>
>Charlie

I agree with Charlie.  Even Debian stable includes postgresql > 8.0.

Rob



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