From: Robert T. <xz...@us...> - 2002-05-08 15:00:53
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On Wednesday 08 May 2002 10:27 am, you wrote: > Quoting Christopher Kings-Lynne <ch...@fa...>: > > > Also, I'm kinda thinking about making WebDB require postgres 7.3 or > > greater. > > This is because of the whole schemas issue. Unless we can think of a way > > of > > lettign webdb handle shema-less and schema-full databases. > > I don't know if we want to go there. Like you mention about having to > support schema-less RMDBs, we really can't leave out are pre-7.3 people. I > suppose phpPgAdmin would work for them, but they would probably be pretty > miffed at us. I think we shouldn't support anything below 7.1 though. > Everyone should be upgraded to that version. Those who aren't are loosing > out on a lot of functionality and speed and we should do our part to > encourage them to upgrade. > > -Dan > Dan, didn't the PG team decide to go there for us? IIRC the switch to schema's is going to require rewrites for almost all PG helper apps, which I'm sure will end up meaning two version of most programs, pre 7.3 and post 7.3. If not for the fact that we want to support other DB's it would probably be a very logical conclusion to start with a baseline of 7.3 for webDB... Robert |