Thread: Ubuntu 18.04 Support
Good afternoon,
I'm writing to ask if there's any timeframe for when PGDG would stop providing packages for Ubuntu 18.04, given that Ubuntu's own EOL date for it is May 31 of this year.
While I'm working to migrate our fleet of databases to Ubuntu 22.04, it is a very slow process due to the libc collation change that prevents simple physical replication from being used, and with very large and/or very busy databases, logical replication or pg_dump/restore sometimes require some extra/creative problem solving.
So I'm curious what to expect from PGDG in terms of the next few quarterly patch cycles in case something urgent is released.
Thanks,
Re: Don Seiler > I'm writing to ask if there's any timeframe for when PGDG would stop > providing packages for Ubuntu 18.04, given that Ubuntu's own EOL date for > it is May 31 of this year. Hi Don, we usually follow that EOL date. There are various tweaks in place to keep things working on the old Debian and Ubuntu releases, and from time to time, it's good to be able to remove the oldest tweaks so the rest of the machinery can move forward. Christoph
Thanks. Any idea how long the existing Ubuntu 18.04 PGDG packages will remain available on your apt repo?
Don.
On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 1:17 PM Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
Re: Don Seiler
> I'm writing to ask if there's any timeframe for when PGDG would stop
> providing packages for Ubuntu 18.04, given that Ubuntu's own EOL date for
> it is May 31 of this year.
Hi Don,
we usually follow that EOL date. There are various tweaks in place to
keep things working on the old Debian and Ubuntu releases, and from
time to time, it's good to be able to remove the oldest tweaks so the
rest of the machinery can move forward.
Christoph
Don Seiler
www.seiler.us
www.seiler.us
Re: Don Seiler > Thanks. Any idea how long the existing Ubuntu 18.04 PGDG packages will > remain available on your apt repo? They won't go away, they will eventually be moved to apt-archive.postgresql.org and can indefinitely used there. Just not with any updates. When that happens isn't clear yet, but with the LTS releases I usually copy packages over and remove the (then read-only) original packages from apt.postgresql.org only months later, after an announcement. Christoph
On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 9:36 AM Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
They won't go away, they will eventually be moved to
apt-archive.postgresql.org and can indefinitely used there. Just not
with any updates.
When that happens isn't clear yet, but with the LTS releases I usually
copy packages over and remove the (then read-only) original packages
from apt.postgresql.org only months later, after an announcement.