Jim Archer wrote:

> --On Wednesday, November 30, 2005 12:54 PM -0500 Christopher Browne
> <cbbrowne at ca.afilias.info> wrote:
>
>> Comments welcome, particularly if you have suggestions as to needful
>> revisions to the Release Checklist.
>
>
> I see the checklist mentioned binary releases and I'm wondering if
> this would include a Debian package?  I know I can build a Debian
> package from the source and another list member was kind enough to
> help me with that some months ago, but I thought I would ask anyhow.

There is now an "official" Debian release, at least in the experimental
distribution.  See the latest bit of news on <http://slony.info/> :-)

> Will older versions of Postgres continue to be supported by Slony?

Until we have compelling reason to break off compatibility.

I'd like to drop 7.3, as its namespace handling and name quoting
handling is too often painfully different from the later releases.  But
nothing has been *so* compelling as to make it really worthwhile to do so.

At some point, dropping 7.3 will doubtless become compelling;
fortunately that is not disastrous, as you'd have the option of doing a
phased upgrade to (say) 1.4.

Suppose we drop 7.3 support in Slony-I 1.3.  (That is entirely
plausible; supporting 7.3 is starting to get a bit painful.)

You could upgrade your old PG 7.3 system to 8.2 using a two phase approach:
1.  Upgrade from 7.3 to 8.1 using Slony-I 1.1 or 1.2 (which, at that
point, are pretty old versions)
2.  Upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2 using Slony-I 1.3

That's not as good as doing it in one step, but you oughtn't be totally
screwed.

That's how I see it, anyways...