svn commit: r505245 - in head/databases: postgresql10-client postgresql10-contrib postgresql10-pgtcl postgresql10-server postgresql11-client postgresql11-server postgresql94-server postgresql95-cli...

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 03:56:06PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 12:30:20AM +0200, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:
> > On 27.06.19 23:44, Matthias Fechner wrote:
> > > Am 27.06.2019 um 23:28 schrieb Palle Girgensohn:
> > >>   The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to
> > >>   all supported versions of our database system, including 11.4, 10.9,
> > >>   9.6.14, 9.5.18, and 9.4.23 [...]
> > > 
> > > thanks a lot for this update!
> > > Are there any plans to switch the default PostgreSQL version to a more
> > > modern one?
> > > 
> > > Currently version 9.5 is the standard and www/gitlab-ce needs at least
> > > version 9.6.
> 
> We're using Postres in our production at $work and had to carefully evaluate
> all 9.x versions, so it looks strange the GitLab works with 9.6 but not with
> 9.5, as changes between these should be pretty minor AFAIR (in comparison to
> e.g. 9.3).  May we know what exactly breaks, so maybe we can craft a patch
> to fix it?
> 
> > I would suggest we switch directly to 10 or 11. I personally would prefer
> > 11, if nobody has objections.
> 
> I'd lean on the conservative side and sticked to 9.x, but I understand that
> we'd have to move to the next version at some point.  Next version is 10,
> not 11.

Upgrading postgresql databases is a pain for the users, the less we make
them upgrade, the better.  Unless there are issues with 11, we should
move to 11. (Or whatever is the latest when the change is made.)

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 963 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-head/attachments/20190703/92eb5353/attachment.sig>