Re: Known issues on PostgreSQL server 8.1.19

Thank you for your answer.

Regards
Pascal Millepied

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 1:53 AM
To: Millepied, Pascal (GE Healthcare)
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [BUGS] Known issues on PostgreSQL server 8.1.19

John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)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