Re: Pg removal of implicit type casts in 8.3

["Chris Travers" <..hidden..>]

Hi Elizabeth,

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Elizabeth Bevilacqua <..hidden..> wrote:

On 2/21/08, Joshua D. Drake <..hidden..> wrote:
> No you are misunderstanding Debian. Debian says that "as of testing" 8.2
>  is deprecated. That is *not* anywhere near close to stable or supported.

Just to jump in here as part of the team who is working to package
ledger-smb officially in Debian[0] - this 8.3 problem is a big one for
us. 8.3 is the default for testing, which will be frozen for a stable
release later this year (so I guess it depends on how "close to
stable" we're talking). As of right now it's going to be tough
(impossible?) for us to get ledgersmb into the next stable Debian
release if 8.3 isn't supported prior to the freeze. I'm not saying
that we expect focused development in this area to meet this goal,
it's more of just an FYI from our end.

First, thanks for helping with the Debian packaging.  It is really appreciated.

Here is my sense of the concensus view relating to LSMB and PostgreSQL 8.3:

LSMB 1.2 may have some issues with implicit casts being removed.    Current branches/1.2 and the validation tarball for 1.2.13 fix all known issues (and any I could find on a quick review of the code) but because this is a pretty fundamental change on the part of PostgreSQL, I am not going to guarantee there won't be other bugs which surface.  Fortunately, any bugs of this sort are quick to solve, so if you report them, we will fix them,

LSMB 1.3 may have similar issues and we are working on this too.  1.3 will be supported on 8.3 with the tsearch2 compatibility modules and the same understanding that any bugs which occur will be addressed and corrected as they are reported.

LSMB 1.4 will move all the tsearch stuff to 8.3's native framework and is expected to be such that we can recommend 8.3 at that point.

So use of LSMB and Pg8.3 is supported but we caution people about possible issues.  I would expect a *lot* of other PostgreSQL-based software to have compatibility issues with 8.3 as well.

Hope this helps,