Re: Support for older servers

Chris Browne wrote:
> dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org ("Dave Page") writes:
>>> ------- Original Message -------
>>> From: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>
>>> To: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
>>> Sent: 17/11/07, 16:38:10
>>> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Support for older servers
>>>
>>> Maybe it's too hard to test a feature in all of those old versions ;)
>> Yes. It can be extremely time consuming, even to test simple bug
>> fixes that *should* be fine on any version. That became apparent
>> this cycle when a few version-specific bugs did creep in when I
>> thought I could get away with more limited testing, and later got
>> found in the field. :-(
>
> I have certainly found this to be troublesome with Slony-I; I have too
> frequently been surprised by seeing things break with, say, 8.0, where
> features were fine earlier and later, basically because of mishandled
> detection of when an interesting new feature (that we intended to use)
> actually crept in.
>
> It's fine if you're always looking to simply use "lowest common
> denominator" functionality, but if you want to use richer feature
> sets, which is *certainly* going to be true for pgadmin, the
> variations between Pg versions will matter, and not in a good way :-(.

Thanks Chris.

Based on this and other comments received (thanks all!), let's target
the next major version of pgAdmin at PostgreSQL 8.0 and above only. 7.3
and 7.4 support will continue to be available in the released versions.

Cheers, Dave.