On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Scott Marlowe<scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Kushal Vaghani<kushalvaghani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hey Craig >> >> I am doing a research project on a particular branch of postgreSQL and we >> have already had some code written on top of 8.2.4 base release few years >> back. I am doing some extensions to it. So thats the reason of not using the >> latest releases. There would be lot of extra patching etc. > > No, there wouldn't. Going from 8.2.4 to 8.2.latest should be > painless, or nearly so. It's when the first two numbers change that > behaviour changes. Generally speaking a point release is just > security patches and bug fixes. On some very rare occasions there is > some behavioural change, but that's very rare and prominantly listed > in the release notes. P.s. you're far more likely to be bitten by some obscure bug in an old release (8.2.4) versus the latest 8.2 release. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
