Just a quick status update. My production servers were using PostgreSQL 16. Last week I updated to PostgreSQL 17. I hope to upgrade to 18 this or next week. After that I will know for sure that php84 is compatible and update my slackbuild dependencies.
I understand that it's difficult to maintain that many PostgreSQL versions, but I still think that it defeats the purpose of PostgreSQL having long-term support for their major releases to switch to each new major release. Switching to the new major release is not a simple "upgradepkg"; I need to rebuild my replica data each time for example. Having said that, thanks for the excellent PostgreSQL support for Slackware. Regards Eugen On Sun Jul 5, 2026 at 3:03 AM CEST, B. Watson wrote: > > To everyone who has scripts with REQUIRES="postgresql"... > > We already have 4 newer versions of postgresql in the repo, > postgresql15 through postgresql18. Please test your scripts against > these versions, and get them working with the highest-numbered version > of postgresql possible. Most likely, most of these will work fine > without patching/etc, but there's no way to find out until you try it. > > postgresql 14.x is going to be EOLed upstream in November of this > year, and we plan to remove it from our repo. That's about 90 days > from now, which hopefully gives enough time for getting things to work > with a newer postgresql. > > At the same time, we'd like to remove postgresql15, postgresql16, and > postgresql17 if possible (if nothing ends up requiring them). Ideally, > all dependees should be updated to work with postgresql18 (which may > mean updating the dependees' versions, too). > > Affected builds and maintainers: > > PyGreSQL (Christoph Willing <[email protected]>) > barman (Dimitris Zlatanidis <[email protected]>) > cyphesis (Dimitris Zlatanidis <[email protected]>) > dovecot-pgsql (Eugene Wissner <[email protected]>) > geopandas (ArTourter <[email protected]>) > grass (Christoph Willing <[email protected]>) > libpqxx (Benjamin Trigona-Harany <[email protected]>) > odoo (Fernando Lopez Jr. <[email protected]>) > osm2pgsql (Giancarlo Dessi <[email protected]>) > osm2pgsql-legacy (Giancarlo Dessi <[email protected]>) > pcp (Lockywolf <[email protected]>) > pd-psql (Michales Michaloudes <[email protected]>) > pdal (Giancarlo Dessi <[email protected]>) > perl-DBD-Pg (Kevin Bryant <[email protected]>) > pgmodeler (Joielechong <[email protected]>) > pgpool-II (Dejan Strbac <[email protected]>) > pgrouting (Giancarlo Dessi <[email protected]>) > pgsanity (Yth - Arnaud <[email protected]>) > pgtcl-ng (Richard Ellis <[email protected]>) > php-pgsql (Heinz Wiesinger <[email protected]>) > php82 (Eugene Wissner <[email protected]>) > php84 (Eugene Wissner <[email protected]>) > phppgadmin (Michel A. Begue <[email protected]>) > postfix-pgsql (Eugene Wissner <[email protected]>) > postgis (Giancarlo Dessi <[email protected]>) > psqlodbc (Chris Walker <[email protected]>) > python3-psycopg2 (Yth - Arnaud <[email protected]>) > python3-psycopg3 (Zlatanidis Dimitris <[email protected]>) > qgis (Giancarlo Dessi <[email protected]>) > qt5-postgresql (Heinz Wiesinger <[email protected]>) > virtualpg (Konrad J Hambrick <[email protected]>) > _______________________________________________ > SlackBuilds-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users > Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ > FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/ _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/
