Re: postgresql versions

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

Hi Thomas

On 19/12/2014 12:40, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> I don't know about version progression in postgresql, but since 9.4
> came out I'd like to know if there really is a point in having so many
> different versions in pkgsrc.
> 
> We currently have packages for 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3, and
> probably will get ones for 9.4 after the freeze.

Each time postgres is upgraded from one version to the next we have to
dump and restore all the databases it uses as they change the on-disk
format between versions.
Sometimes that's an arduous task which I don't do that much.

Roy