Fwd: Stable Release?

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>

Date: February 21, 2008 4:21:24 PM EST

To: "Carol Walter" <walterc@indiana.edu>

Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org

Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Stable Release?

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu> wrote:

 them, but I don't support our web server.  The Unix Admin told me

 that he was going to put 8.1 on the new server, he is building

 because that's the latest stable version and besides he doesn't want

 to build a new postgres package there.

His laziness aside (the good kind) not wanting to build a package is

kind of a poor excuse.  If you're running RHEL or Fedora, the PGDG

rpms should work fine.  If you're running debian or ubuntu, then 8.2

is available for most of those versions.  8.2 is MUCH better than 8.1.

 It has a couple of features that make it much nicer than 8.1 in

production.

All of my machines that are

 running postgres have 8.2.4.

If you need to move data from there to production you're going to have

issues getting it from 8.2 and into 8.1. It is NOT your Unix SA's job

to decide which version of postgresql to support, it is you, the DBA

who should be deciding that.  He should be supporting you in that

choice.

 I understood this to be a stable

 release and I've had no trouble with it.  I was taken aback by this

 other information that my colleague had given me, hence the reason

 for my question.

I don't think he has any evidence to back up his claim.  also, 8.2.4

is not the latest stable, 8.2.6 is.  It's a good idea to keep up with

patch releases in pgsql.

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