Time to delete old PostgreSQL from MacPorts?

[Eric Gallager]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 1:58 AM Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net> wrote:
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> > On Jul 13, 2024, at 01:46, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
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> > On Jul 12, 2024, at 4:54 PM, David Gilman <davidgilman1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Is there any opposition to dropping all unsupported PostgreSQL
> >> versions from MacPorts? That would be any version of PostgreSQL before
> >> 12. Version 12 runs out of support later this year.
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> > I'm strongly in favor of removing versions that are no longer supported upstream.
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> > Daniel J. Luke
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> Do any old ports depend on an older version such that they won't work with a version not being considered for removal?
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I've found the following so far: TOra (variants), slony1, rb-postgres,
all the qt5*-psql-plugin ports, all the qt4-mac-postgresql*-plugin
ports, postgresql-unaccent, postgis (the v1 port, that is; postgis2
and postgis3 both have new enough variants/subports), pgtcl,
pgpool-II, pgAdmin3, all the libzdb-postgresql* ports, libpqxx26,
iplike, BigSQL, and BiggerSQL.

> Will the oldest version to be kept still work on at least Snow Leopard? (useful among old OS versions as the last with the original Rosetta)
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> If neither of those is a problem, and it's no longer supported upstream, then good riddance, IMO, esp. IF migration is straightforward, old databases still work without being dumped and reloaded, etc.
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