Обсуждение: Known issues on PostgreSQL server 8.1.19
Hello, We are using PostgreSQL server 8.1.19 in our product and as part of SDLC ac= tivities, we would like to know about the Known Issues present in this version. Could you tell us if there is new known issue on this release since last ye= ar? Regards Pascal Millepied
On 12/17/2015 8:30 AM, Millepied, Pascal (GE Healthcare) wrote: > > We are using PostgreSQL server 8.1.19 in our product and as part of > SDLC activities, > > we would like to know about the Known Issues present in this version. > > Could you tell us if there is new known issue on this release since > last year? > PostgreSQL 8.1 is long out of support and well past end of life. 8.1.19 was released in 2009, the final 8.1 release was 8.1.23 was in 2010. Known/fixed problems in 8.1.19 are described in the release notes for 8.1.20, 8.1.21, 8.1.22, and 8.1.23, here http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release.html current supported releases are 9.1.19, 9.2.14, 9.3.10, and 9.4.5, 9.5 is in beta for a probable release some time next year. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> writes:
> On 12/17/2015 8:30 AM, Millepied, Pascal (GE Healthcare) wrote:
>> We are using PostgreSQL server 8.1.19 in our product and as part of
>> SDLC activities,
>> we would like to know about the Known Issues present in this version.
>> Could you tell us if there is new known issue on this release since
>> last year?
> PostgreSQL 8.1 is long out of support and well past end of life. 8.1.19
> was released in 2009, the final 8.1 release was 8.1.23 was in 2010.
That means in particular that no one has even bothered to track "known
issues" in 8.1 since 2010. It'd be a reasonable bet for example that many
of the issues that were fixed in 8.2 after 8.2.19 are also in 8.1, but no
one associated with the project has checked. And 8.2 went out of support
a year later, so it'd only be a good guide to the next year's worth of
fixes. It's not exactly uncommon for us to make fixes that go into all
active branches and would probably apply to older ones if we were still
supporting them.
I'd suggest close study of all the later minor-release release notes to
see what fixes might be applicable to 8.1. Or perhaps your time would be
better spent on migrating to a newer release --- the performance and
feature gap between 8.1 and current Postgres is pretty wide.
regards, tom lane
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> writes: >> On 12/17/2015 8:30 AM, Millepied, Pascal (GE Healthcare) wrote: >>> We are using PostgreSQL server 8.1.19 in our product and as part of >>> SDLC activities, >>> we would like to know about the Known Issues present in this version. >>> Could you tell us if there is new known issue on this release since >>> last year? > >> PostgreSQL 8.1 is long out of support and well past end of life. 8.1.19 >> was released in 2009, the final 8.1 release was 8.1.23 was in 2010. > > That means in particular that no one has even bothered to track "known > issues" in 8.1 since 2010. It'd be a reasonable bet for example that many > of the issues that were fixed in 8.2 after 8.2.19 are also in 8.1, but no > one associated with the project has checked. And 8.2 went out of support > a year later, so it'd only be a good guide to the next year's worth of > fixes. It's not exactly uncommon for us to make fixes that go into all > active branches and would probably apply to older ones if we were still > supporting them. How crazy would it be to emit a log message when Postgres comes up and discovers that time has moved past the advertised known-five-years-in-advance EOL date for the executable's major release? (And perhaps another kind of message when the executable's minor release is certainly too old, though I have no idea when that would be...) -- Thomas Munro http://www.enterprisedb.com
Thomas Munro wrote: > How crazy would it be to emit a log message when Postgres comes up and > discovers that time has moved past the advertised > known-five-years-in-advance EOL date for the executable's major > release? (And perhaps another kind of message when the executable's > minor release is certainly too old, though I have no idea when that > would be...) I don't think it's likely that sysadmins that leave their systems without updates for so long would even consider the idea of looking at the log files -- much less look for warnings emitted at server start. People familiar with Postgres would probably notice such a warning, of course, but we would immediately notice that the minor/major version is out support just as well. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
Thank you for your answer.
Regards
Pascal Millepied
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]=20
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 1:53 AM
To: Millepied, Pascal (GE Healthcare)
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [BUGS] Known issues on PostgreSQL server 8.1.19
John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> writes:
> On 12/17/2015 8:30 AM, Millepied, Pascal (GE Healthcare) wrote:
>> We are using PostgreSQL server 8.1.19 in our product and as part of=20
>> SDLC activities, we would like to know about the Known Issues present=20
>> in this version.
>> Could you tell us if there is new known issue on this release since=20
>> last year?
> PostgreSQL 8.1 is long out of support and well past end of life. 8.1.19=20
> was released in 2009, the final 8.1 release was 8.1.23 was in 2010. =20
That means in particular that no one has even bothered to track "known issu=
es" in 8.1 since 2010. It'd be a reasonable bet for example that many of t=
he issues that were fixed in 8.2 after 8.2.19 are also in 8.1, but no one a=
ssociated with the project has checked. And 8.2 went out of support a year=
later, so it'd only be a good guide to the next year's worth of fixes. It=
's not exactly uncommon for us to make fixes that go into all active branch=
es and would probably apply to older ones if we were still supporting them.
I'd suggest close study of all the later minor-release release notes to see=
what fixes might be applicable to 8.1. Or perhaps your time would be bett=
er spent on migrating to a newer release --- the performance and feature ga=
p between 8.1 and current Postgres is pretty wide.
regards, tom lane