[postgis-users] Re: [postgis-devel] Who is still using PostgreSQL8.1?

Devrim GÜNDÜZ devrim at gunduz.org
Sat Jun 6 13:01:52 PDT 2009


On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 15:52 -0400, Paragon Corporation wrote:
> Do they ship other versions or just that?

Just that. RHEL does not update to new major releases during product
lifetime. 

>  For my EL5 installs, I just use the Yum repository you set up

Yeah, 2000+ RHEL users do the same :P

> and would encourage others using EL5 to do that since I would never
> think of using PostgreSQL 8.1. 

You know, if someone uses a package which is not included in RHEL, Red
Hat won't give support to them.

> We'll still be supporting 1.3 on 8.1 but there is no way we are going
> to keep on supporting 8.1 for another 5 years with newer PostGIS
> releases. 

How long will PostGIS team maintain 1.3?

Regards,
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE
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