Re: Version on the yum.postgresql.org website

From: jaime soler <jaime(dot)soler(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: John Scalia <jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Version on the yum.postgresql.org website
Date: 2015-03-18 16:36:40
Message-ID: 1426696600.8296.0.camel@gmail.com
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El mié, 18-03-2015 a las 12:21 -0400, John Scalia escribió:
> On 3/18/2015 12:17 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:06:58PM -0400, John Scalia wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm not sure of policy on the yum.postgresql.org website, but I have a small difficulty. We haven't yet upgraded beyond 9.3.3, and that's been working fairly well for us. For an
> >> upcoming project, we need to build out a new environment from scratch, which means being able to download everything from either the RedHat yum sites or from 3rd party yum sites.
> >> Well, the older 9.3.3 version isn't on the postgresql site anymore. Now 9.3.4 and above are, but that means a whole new and time-consuming round of testing if we migrate up. Is
> >> there any chance of putting the older 9.3.3 instance back on the yum site? Or is some major flaw with 9.3.3 that should motivate us to get off it immediately?
> > I think you need to read this, and do all minor upgrades when they are
> > available:
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/
> >
> > The community considers not upgrading to be riskier than
> > upgrading.
> Sure, I read this earlier, but if this is really the issue, then why are 9.3.4 and 9.3.5 both still available on the yum site? Isn't that also a sort of violation since the current
> version of 9.3 is 9.3.6?

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> Jay
>
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