Thread: Known issues for PostgreSQL server 8.1.19
Hi, We are using PostgreSQL server 8.1.19 in our product and as part of SDLC ac= tivities, we would like to know about the Known Issues present in this vers= ion. Regards, Anurag Dashputre
Hi, On 2013-09-18 11:56:36 +0000, Dashputre, Anurag (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 KnownIssues present in this version. The primary issue - especially regarding lifecycle - is that 8.1 is out of support and thus unmaintained for more than 2 years. Check http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/ for details. The also have been several maintenance releases with important fixes in the 8.1 line since then. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
Hi Andres, Thanks for your reply. We can't upgrade to newer version as of now. We just= want to know list of known issues on 8.1.19. We will just note them down and do some impact analysis. Regards, Anurag Dashputre -----Original Message----- From: Andres Freund [mailto:andres@2ndquadrant.com]=20 Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 8:28 PM To: Dashputre, Anurag (GE Healthcare) Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [BUGS] Known issues for PostgreSQL server 8.1.19 Hi, On 2013-09-18 11:56:36 +0000, Dashputre, Anurag (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 ve= rsion. The primary issue - especially regarding lifecycle - is that 8.1 is out of = support and thus unmaintained for more than 2 years. Check http://www.postg= resql.org/support/versioning/ for details. The also have been several maintenance releases with important fixes in the= 8.1 line since then. Greetings, Andres Freund --=20 Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
Dashputre, Anurag (GE Healthcare) wrote on 20.09.2013 08:39: > Thanks for your reply. We can't upgrade to newer version as of now. We just want to know list of known issues on 8.1.19. > We will just note them down and do some impact analysis. You will need to go through the release notes for every version after 8.1.19 and see what was fixed - those should be the"open issues" in your release. An upgrade to a new minor version (8.1.19 to 8.1.23) should never be a problem though.
On 9/20/2013 10:05 AM, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > Dashputre, Anurag (GE Healthcare) wrote on 20.09.2013 08:39: >> Thanks for your reply. We can't upgrade to newer version as of now. >> We just want to know list of known issues on 8.1.19. >> We will just note them down and do some impact analysis. > > You will need to go through the release notes for every version after > 8.1.19 and see what was fixed - those should be the "open issues" in > your release. An upgrade to a new minor version (8.1.19 to 8.1.23) > should never be a problem though. basically, start at E.100 here, http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release.html and read every release note newer than that. 8.1.19 was released in December 2009, about the same time as 8.2.15, 8.3.9, and 8.4.2, so when you did your code freeze on that version, there were already 3 newer major releases. the final 8.1 release, 8.1.23, was released in 2010-12-16 concurrently with 8.2.19, 8.3.13, 8.4.16, and 9.0.2. bug fixes after that date were not applied to 8.1, so you should probably also read all the release notes from 9.0.3 to 9.0.13, filtering them for features that were added after 8.1 (for instance, replication related bugs obviously aren't applicable to 8.1) I really really don't like to see that phrase, "we can't upgrade to newer version". do you also run 5 year old operating systems that are unsupported and unpatched? sadly, this is all too common in the embedded world, where no planning consideration is given towards product maintenance and updating. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast