Re: Version on the yum.postgresql.org website - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Version on the yum.postgresql.org website
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Msg-id 20150318161750.GA13998@momjian.us
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In response to Version on the yum.postgresql.org website  (John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Version on the yum.postgresql.org website  (John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com>)
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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
beyond9.3.3, 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
fromeither 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
newand 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
shouldmotivate 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.

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