On Tue, 05 May 2009 13:10 +1000, "Tim Starling" tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Karun Dambiec wrote:
Hello, I have been looking at some of the bugs relating to PostGreSQL, and have found that I am not sure if some of them could be considered to be bugs with MediaWiki. For example https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16937 As they relate to it not working with a particular version of PostGreSQL which is 7 years old or so.
Do we have a minimum version of PostGreSQL that MediaWiki should work with?
Yes, 8.1. If you try to use one that is earlier, the web installer will give an error message. The issue on bug 16937 is that the user claims he has a recent version of PostgreSQL installed, but the server is reporting a protocol version which is consistent with 7.3 or earlier. Later comments suggest that this is because his PHP client library is broken.
Would it be suitable if I made a change to the page about PostGreSQL at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PostgreSQL, to say it does not work with earlier versions than 8.1, and a protocol version of 3 or later being supported by the PHP client library?
Regards