Re: Install from Source On Windows - University of Sydney Research

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Scott Marlowe<scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Kushal Vaghani<kushalvaghani(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hey Craig
>>
>> I am doing a research project on a particular branch of postgreSQL and we
>> have already had some code written on top of 8.2.4 base release few years
>> back. I am doing some extensions to it. So thats the reason of not using the
>> latest releases. There would be lot of extra patching etc.
>
> No, there wouldn't.  Going from 8.2.4 to 8.2.latest should be
> painless, or nearly so.  It's when the first two numbers change that
> behaviour changes.  Generally speaking a point release is just
> security patches and bug fixes. On some very rare occasions there is
> some behavioural change, but that's very rare and prominantly listed
> in the release notes.

P.s. you're far more likely to be bitten by some obscure bug in an old
release (8.2.4) versus the latest 8.2 release.