On 04/10/11 09:42, Seiko Ishida wrote:
> PostgreSQL version: 8.2.4
> Operating system: Windows 8
From the PostgreSQL release notes:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/release-8-2-22.html
"The PostgreSQL community will stop releasing updates for the 8.2.X
release series in December 2011. Users are encouraged to update to a
newer release branch soon."
In other words, 8.2 will be unsupported before any likely release of
Windows 8.
Furthermore, 8.2.4 was released on 2007-04-23 and is four and a half
years old! You need to a least be testing with 8.2.22, since any fix
made to the 8.2 series would get released in 8.2.23 not made
retroactively to 8.2.4 .
Testing with 9.0 or 9.1 would be much more useful.
> I am a Program Manager with the Ecosystem Engineering team at Microsoft.
>
> I am looking for a technical contact point to notify of compatibility issues
> with PostgreSQL. Could you please connect me to the appropriate individual for this?
Most PostgreSQL work is done on these mailing lists, especially on
pgsql-hackers, rather than by direct private correspondance.
If there is a specific problem with PostgreSQL 8.2.4 and that problem
still exists in the most recent patch release of the 8.2 line, 8.2.22,
then please post a follow-up to this list or to the pgsql-hackers list
with details on the problem.
If you're looking to work directly with a single individual or
non-public group to resolve issues with an obsolete version of
PostgreSQL then you might want to get in touch with the EnterpriseDB
folks. They're focused on commercial support and probably the only ones
likely to be interested in very old releases. 8.2.4 is *ANCIENT* and
behind on a LOT of bugfix patches, though; you should be testing with
8.2.22, which is the latest in the 8.2 bugfix series, rather than with
8.2.4.
Personally I'd be inclined not to care about PostgreSQL 8.2.x on a newly
released platform. It's four major releases old and will be officially
unsupported any day now. There won't be any old installs to worry about
and new installs should be using a current patch release and preferably
a more recent major version.
--
Craig Ringer
