HEADS UP: databases/postgresql72 is dying

[Palle Girgensohn]

--On lördag, november 06, 2004 20.39.23 +0300 Dmitry Morozovsky 
<marck at rinet.ru> wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Sebastian B?ck wrote:
>
> SB> Ade Lovett wrote:
> SB> > FYI.  Prior to the postgresql new-world-order in ports/, I have now
> tagged SB> > databases/postgresql72 (current version 7.2.5) as
> DEPRECATED, with it SB> > being removed from the tree on or about 1st
> January 2005.
> SB> >
> SB> > You are *strongly* urged to upgrade to either 7.3.x or 7.4.x
> SB>
> SB> Have you considered that 7.2 is the last Version that doesn't have
> SB> schemas. Out there may be some / are lot of applications that depend
> SB> on this behaviour.
> SB>
> SB> I'd vote not to remove the port.
> SB>
> SB> Just my personal opinion
>
> Hmm, have you any info regarding schema-aware postgresql doing
> counter-intuitive when not using dot-notation?

AFAIK, there are no problems regarding schemas when upgrading 7.2 -> 
7.[34]. Not using the dot-notation (the 7.2 way) works just as expected in 
7.3 & 7.4. I've never bothered to alter my apps anyway.

/Palle



>
> The only thing I'm thinking about is splitting system relations and user
> relations between two schemas in 7.4, but even that should not be an
> issue as  lookup method is (or at least seems) safe to this.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Sincerely,
> D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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