[postgis-users] Proposal to drop support for PostgreSQL 8.3 in PostGIS 2.0

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 10/28/2010 3:49 AM, strk wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 06:23:37PM -0400, Paragon Corporation wrote:
>
>> You bring up a good point.  I guess my thinking is that some distros are
>> really old.  Like aren't some RedHat versions still tauting PostgreSQL 8.1
>> as their standard of excellence :)  I can't remember the
>> Last time I've used an official distro since they always seem to be eons
>> behind in the name of stability.
>
> My rule of thumb in the recent years have been:
> Stick to what "Debian stable" has.
> (debian stable is known to be behind in name of stability)
>
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/postgresql

+1 This is excellent advice.

-Steve W