Re: Stable Release? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

I appreciate all your comments.  I knew I'd be opening a kettle of
fish with the question.  I have been all over the postgres site but I
didn't feel I got a straight -forward answer to my question.  When I
had read the docs and still didn't know the answer, I went to you
guys for a definitive answer.  Let me tell you why I want to know.
The colleague I mentioned in my previous message is our Unix System
Admin.  He just built a new web-server.  Our web is dependent on
postgres for all it's database work.  We may have a strange division
of labor here.  The sys admin makes the packages.  I usually add
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.  All of my machines that are
running postgres have 8.2.4.  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.

Carol

On Feb 21, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Ron Mayer wrote:

> Gergely CZUCZY wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:53:35AM -0500, Carol Walter wrote:
>>> A colleague told me that the latest stable release of PostgreSQL
>>> is 8.1.x.  I thought it was 8.2.4.  What is the latest stable
>>> release?
>>>  I thought there was a problem with autovacuum in the earlier
>>> releases.  Can anyone comment?
>> Have you tried to check out the website of the project?
>> Let me help you, it's http://www.postgresql.org/
>> I'm sure you've read it, while you was looking for this list...
>>
>
> I'm guessing Carol did see it but still has confusion over
> whether a "major" or "latest" release is considered "stable".
>
> I see the web site mention that 8.3's the "latest" release;
> and on other pages it says 8.2.3 is the latest release[1], and
> sometimes other versions[2].
>
> With all the bizarre numbering schemes software[3] uses,
> where sometimes 2.0.0 means "unstable"; perhaps it'd be
> nice if our versioning page[4] explicitly said "Our major
> releases are stable releases that we consider suitable for
> production".
>
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> [1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_chinese_trad.html
> [2] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_czech.html#item1.6
> [3] http://www.linux.com/feature/45507
> [4] http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning
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