[postgis-users] PSC Vote: Drop PostgreSQL 9.6 and PostgreSQL 10 in PostGIS 3.3

[Paul Ramsey]

+1 paul

On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 9:22 PM Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

> PostgreSQL 9.6 has reached EOL so I don't think there is any point in
> supporting it in PostGIS 3.3.
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/
>
>
> PostgreSQL 10 will be EOL'd before or very close to our planned 3.3 release
> so we should get rid of that too.
>
> There is not much savings with only dropping 9.6 because most of our ifdefs
> are at the 11, 12, and 14 mile posts.
>
> PROS
> 1) It will speed up our testing if we don't need to test these 2.
> 2) Much fewer ifdefs
> 3) Less looking back down the past of what is legit for what version of
> PostgreSQL.
>
> CONS
> PostgreSQL 9.6, 10 people can't run 3.3, but why would they anyway.
> Upgrading from PostgreSQL 10 some 3+ -> PostgreSQL something_supported 3.3
> would be the way to go anyway and now much less painful now that we don't
> have the minor in the lib file anymore.
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
>
>
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