On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Christopher
Browne<cbbrowne at ca.afilias.info> wrote:
> Kenneth Marshall <ktm at rice.edu> writes:
>> In particular, I would like to be able to upgrade an
>> 8.3 databae to 8.4 with minimal downtime. 1.2.14 does
>> not build with a missing function definition for
>> SerializableSnapshot. If not, is there a scheme to
>> upgrade to 8.4 that does not entail the outage of
>> a full dump/restore cycle?
>
> No, 1.2 does not work with 8.4, and barring having considerably more
> time to play with, it doesn't seem like a straightforward backport.

Chris - can we get the requirements documents for both 1.2.X and 2.0.X
updated to reflect the current status of PostgreSQL support?

>From your 2.0.0 announcement[1] you say that 2.0 only supports
PostgreSQL 8.3+, yet the documentation[2] refers to 7.3.3 as being the
minimum and has a lot of references to versions of PostgreSQL older
than 8.3.

Similarly, if Slony 1.2 does not support PostgreSQL 8.4, it's
documentation should be reflected to say that - I (mistakenly?)
assumed that 1.2.16 supported PostgreSQL 8.4 as the list archives[3]
mentioned that 1.2.16 had some compile time fixes related one of the
8.4 beta releases.

In the 2.0 branch, I would also suggest that RELEASE be renamed to
RELEASE-1.2 and RELEASE-2.0 be renamed to RELEASE.

-Dave

PS - Anyone else have really bad formatting issues on the Slony
website using Firefox with content all squished over to one side?

[1] http://lists.slony.info/pipermail/slony1-general/2008-November/009014.html
[2] http://slony.info/documentation/requirements.html
[3] http://lists.slony.info/pipermail/slony1-general/2009-May/009434.html