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Re: Versions RSS page is missing version(s)

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(adding pgsql-www, isn't this more a www question than a general
postgresql usage question?)


2010/1/29 Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> While looking into a failed check_postgres check, I found a problem
> with the canonical versions page here:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/versions.rss
>
> It only goes back to 8.0, but as far as I know, 7.4 is not unsupported

Hmm. Seems 7.4 was removed by Dave when we released 8.4:

https://pgweb.postgresql.org/changeset/2520


Dave, do you recall why?


> yet, so that page should be listing 7.4.27. Further, shouldn't we be keeping
> even 'unsupported' versions on this page, so (e.g. case of check_postgres.pl)
> clients can check if they have the latest revision, even if the major/minor
> combo is super old?

No, I don't think we should. We should list supported versions only.
And check_postgres could be advised to throw a warning at least if
you're running an unsupported version ;)

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