Re: Bug in Dbd-Pg?
David Fetter <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.db.postgresql.dbdpg |
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On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 07:53:21PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > OK, thanks. we should mothball the gborg repo so people don't > > waste their time. > > > > When do we intend to stop support for versions older than 7.4? 7.2 > > is genuinely dead, and 7.3 is on its last legs. Is there any > > reason to support these in new releases of DBD::Pg? > > I just returned from a very long car trip, and one of the many > things I was thinking over was this very issue. I'm strongly leaning > towards not supporting 7.3 at all, +1 for de-supporting 7.3, and 7.4 if it's getting in the way. The PostgreSQL project only promises to support 3 versions, and those are 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 today. > beginning with the next version, unless someone on this list can > give a very strong reason for keeping it. Not only is 7.3 ancient at > this point, but there were major changes made from 7.3 to 7.4 which > not only makes our code more complicated, but almost all of the > recent additions to DBD::Pg are things that are not even supported > in 7.3. Last time I brought this up on the list there were some > strong disagreements about ending 7.3 support, but I don't see that > happening this time barring some insanely good reason I'm > overlooking. :) I know there are people who won't upgrade software. They get to stick with old versions of everything, not just of some things. > I should also have time in the next couple weeks to get going again > in earnest on DBD::Pg - my tentative goal is a new version at the > end of January. Any feature requests, patches, etc. please speak up > now. Current things off the top of my head already scheduled: COPY > overhaul, full array support, statistics info support, utf > audit/overhaul, support for other "default" variables (e.g. > CURRENT_TIMESTAMP). Possible future stuff: asynchronous statements, > better function support, log/conf file parsing. Any chance of complex type support? Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[email protected]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote!