Fwd: Stable Release?

FYI, We're on Solaris 10.

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> From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
> Date: February 21, 2008 4:21:24 PM EST
> To: "Carol Walter" <walterc(at)indiana(dot)edu>
> Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Stable Release?
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Carol Walter <walterc(at)indiana(dot)edu>
> wrote:
>
>> them, but I don't support our web server. The Unix Admin told me
>> that he was going to put 8.1 on the new server, he is building
>> because that's the latest stable version and besides he doesn't want
>> to build a new postgres package there.
>
> His laziness aside (the good kind) not wanting to build a package is
> kind of a poor excuse. If you're running RHEL or Fedora, the PGDG
> rpms should work fine. If you're running debian or ubuntu, then 8.2
> is available for most of those versions. 8.2 is MUCH better than 8.1.
> It has a couple of features that make it much nicer than 8.1 in
> production.
>
>> All of my machines that are
>> running postgres have 8.2.4.
>
> If you need to move data from there to production you're going to have
> issues getting it from 8.2 and into 8.1. It is NOT your Unix SA's job
> to decide which version of postgresql to support, it is you, the DBA
> who should be deciding that. He should be supporting you in that
> choice.
>
>> I understood this to be a stable
>> release and I've had no trouble with it. I was taken aback by this
>> other information that my colleague had given me, hence the reason
>> for my question.
>
> I don't think he has any evidence to back up his claim. also, 8.2.4
> is not the latest stable, 8.2.6 is. It's a good idea to keep up with
> patch releases in pgsql.
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