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

[Calle Hedberg]

agree
Calle

On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 at 18:07, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:

> +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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