Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: 5.0 release thoughts and the community

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Posted by Jade Rubick on
Another critical element of the 5.0 release is going to be upgrades.

There are several elements of this.

First of all, apparently, Postgres 7.2 support is being deprecated (according to dave on IRC, and Jon in this post https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=121643).

Because the Postgres 7.2 - 7.3 or 7.4 upgrade is non-trivial due to problems with function name truncation...

1) We need to have a document that describes the order that the upgrade needs to happen (upgrade first, then Postgres?, or the other way around?)

2) We'll also need an upgrade testing strategy. I personally don't think 5.0 should be released unless the upgrade document is out and well tested.

I tried to install head yesterday, not realizing that it required Postgres 7.3 or greater. I personally won't be able to help much on testing head until this issue is taken care of. I know the scripts have been written, but I don't know if they work well enough to upgrade, and nobody's written up an upgrade doc that I'm aware of.

I unfortunately don't have much time to devote to this... I can help with testing a little.