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.
The reporter would like MediaWiki to work in this situation, but we don't intend to support such old protocol versions, regardless of what server he actually has installed.
I would close it as a WONTFIX, but the reporter seems so focused on this bug that he would probably go postal and shoot up the server room, so I thought it would just leave it as is. Greg appears to have come to more or less the same conclusion.
-- Tim Starling