On Jan 30, 2008 5:41 PM, Joshua D. Drake <
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:18:18 -0800
"Chris Travers" <
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> Our first PgSQL 8.3 compatibility bug. Please try the latest
> Session/DB.pm from svn branches/1.2
There are other likely very big compatibility issues with 8.3. 8.2.6
should be the recommended platform. I think we are asking for trouble
if we spend a bunch of time making 1.2 work with 8.3.
Almost certainly there will be more problems.
Of course, *most* of them will affect both 1.2 and 1.3. And they are trivial to solve once we get a bug report.
Let's focus on 1.3 :)
Agreed. However, we have agreed that we will fix bugs reported when PostgreSQL 8.3 is used with 1.3 even if we won't make any guarantees about things working error-free out of the box. I think this is the best policy. Most of the work in getting stuff to work with PgSQL 8.3 is going to be in testing. As far as I am conerned, the 2 min. it took to fix this in 1.2 is not a bad thing (2 min for branches/1.2 and 30 sec. or so for /trunk). I just don't want to spend 20 hours trying to test the application on PgSQL 8.3 in order to ensure it works.
So, my feeling is that if people want to run PostgreSQL 8.3, the appropriate response from us is "we make no guarantees but will fix reported issues."
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers