3.1 "Ascraeus" to drop support for PostgreSQL < 8.3

[Oleg]

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

[Oleg]

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.

[MichaelC]

Is it worth making an announcement or topic/blog post on .com about thi?s

[imkingdavid]

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.

[MichaelC]

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?

[imkingdavid]

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

[Oleg]

Please create a ticket.

[MichaelC]

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.