Обсуждение: how to tell if a pg version supports a linux distribution
Hello, if a pg version has been tested on the buildfarm but the pg yum repository doesn't have packages for a linux distribution that means that distribution isn't supported by pg? how can I find if linux distributions for a pg version have regression tests executed against.
e.g. : postgresql 16 doesn't have packages on yum for centos 7 but I can find tests on the buildfarm for it.
Thanks
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Bruno Vieira da Silva
On 6/5/24 1:24 PM, bruno vieira da silva wrote: > Hello, if a pg version has been tested on the buildfarm but the pg yum > repository doesn't have packages for a linux distribution that means > that distribution isn't supported by pg? how can I find if linux > distributions for a pg version have regression tests executed against. > > e.g. : postgresql 16 doesn't have packages on yum for centos 7 but I can > find tests on the buildfarm for it. > > https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/index.html > <https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/index.html> https://yum.postgresql.org/news/rhel7-postgresql-rpms-end-of-life/ " PostgreSQL RPM repo stopped adding new packages to the RHEL 7 repo as of Aug 2023, including PostgreSQL 16. We will maintain older major releases until each major release is EOLed by PostgreSQL project. Please visit here for latest release dates for each major release. If you have any questions, please either email to pgsql-pkg-yum@lists.postgresql.org, or create a ticket at our redmine. " > > Thanks > > -- > Bruno Vieira da Silva -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
On 6/5/24 1:24 PM, bruno vieira da silva wrote: > Hello, if a pg version has been tested on the buildfarm but the pg yum > repository doesn't have packages for a linux distribution that means > that distribution isn't supported by pg? how can I find if linux > distributions for a pg version have regression tests executed against. > > e.g. : postgresql 16 doesn't have packages on yum for centos 7 but I can > find tests on the buildfarm for it. > > https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/index.html > <https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/index.html> Should have added to previous post: https://yum.postgresql.org/ Available PostgreSQL Releases Click on Postgres version number to see what distro versions are supported. > > Thanks > > -- > Bruno Vieira da Silva -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
On Wed, 2024-06-05 at 16:24 -0400, bruno vieira da silva wrote: > Hello, if a pg version has been tested on the buildfarm but the pg yum > repository doesn't have packages for a linux distribution that means > that distribution isn't supported by pg? how can I find if linux > distributions for a pg version have regression tests executed against. > > e.g. : postgresql 16 doesn't have packages on yum for centos 7 but I > can find tests on the buildfarm for it. > > https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/index.html PostgreSQL supports all Linux distributions. It doesn't particularly care about the distribution as long as all the required software is installed (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/install-requirements.html). There are certainly other considerations. For example, if your Linux distribution uses musl as C library, which has dysfunctional collation support, then collations won't work in PostgreSQL either, since it uses that functionality by default. If you want to avoid surprises, it might be good to use widely-used distributions, but that doesn't mean that other distributions are not supported. Packaging is a completely different affair. PostgreSQL provides binary packages for the distributions that a packager cares about. If Devrim decides that he doesn't want to build packages for v16 for a crummy old CentOS release, that's his choice. Yours, Laurenz Albe