3.1 "Ascraeus" to drop support for PostgreSQL < 8.3

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Re: 3.1 "Ascraeus" to drop support for PostgreSQL < 8.2

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Per viewtopic.php?p=235659#p235659 when we do the fulltext search in postgres we should bump the minimum version to 8.3.

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Re: 3.1 "Ascraeus" to drop support for PostgreSQL < 8.3

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With the postgres fulltext search merged (which requires 8.3), overall postgres requirement will now be 8.3+.

Squeeze ships 8.4 http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/postgresql

I guess redhat/centos at 8.1 are going to be out of luck. I cannot imagine too many people who would insist on running postgres 8.1 in this day and age however.

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Is it worth making an announcement or topic/blog post on .com about thi?s
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I'm not sure a full announcement is needed for this, though it probably wouldn't hurt. At the very least, we should add a notice on the upgrade page for users that are using an older version of postgresql.
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imkingdavid wrote:I'm not sure a full announcement is needed for this, though it probably wouldn't hurt. At the very least, we should add a notice on the upgrade page for users that are using an older version of postgresql.
An ACP warning like we have done for PHP?
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Re: 3.1 "Ascraeus" to drop support for PostgreSQL < 8.3

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Probably just on the requirements check of the upgrade script it should test for the current database version being too low.
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Please create a ticket.

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imkingdavid wrote:Probably just on the requirements check of the upgrade script it should test for the current database version being too low.
I believe there was something rxu was working on as we don't check all requirements properly in the update/install process. We should also warn in the ACP when future phpBB requirements are not met in existing installs. I'll make an RFC for this.
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