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| author | Ramiro Morales <cramm0@gmail.com> | 2011-06-16 20:05:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Ramiro Morales <cramm0@gmail.com> | 2011-06-16 20:05:25 +0000 |
| commit | b870bf6b9a4ac44331e97bce8b95cc44447580fa (patch) | |
| tree | 81021c0041fe258e8d682cb0c4353aee26bce314 /docs | |
| parent | b2f5efc6ac59e3341b2d617510137707f214e18f (diff) | |
Fixed #16255 -- Raised minimum PostgreSQL version supported to 8.2.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@16423 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/databases.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.4.txt | 11 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/databases.txt b/docs/ref/databases.txt index 8d8e1e8154..2f55b9c8c6 100644 --- a/docs/ref/databases.txt +++ b/docs/ref/databases.txt @@ -16,21 +16,9 @@ documentation or reference manuals. PostgreSQL notes ================ -.. versionchanged:: 1.3 +.. versionchanged:: 1.4 -Django supports PostgreSQL 8.0 and higher. If you want to use -:ref:`database-level autocommit <postgresql-autocommit-mode>`, a -minimum version of PostgreSQL 8.2 is required. - -.. admonition:: Improvements in recent PostgreSQL versions - - PostgreSQL 8.0 and 8.1 `will soon reach end-of-life`_; there have - also been a number of significant performance improvements added - in recent PostgreSQL versions. Although PostgreSQL 8.0 is the minimum - supported version, you would be well advised to use a more recent - version if at all possible. - -.. _will soon reach end-of-life: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Release_Support_Policy +Django supports PostgreSQL 8.2 and higher. PostgreSQL 8.2 to 8.2.4 ----------------------- diff --git a/docs/releases/1.4.txt b/docs/releases/1.4.txt index e7e8f45795..7cc3fb1bc2 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.4.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.4.txt @@ -376,3 +376,14 @@ Old styles of calling ``cache_page`` decorator Some legacy ways of calling :func:`~django.views.decorators.cache.cache_page` have been deprecated, please see the docs for the correct way to use this decorator. + +Support for PostgreSQL versions older than 8.2 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Django 1.3 dropped support for PostgreSQL versions older than 8.0 and the +relevant documents suggested to use a recent version because of performance +reasons but more importantly because end of the upstream support periods for +releases 8.0 and 8.1 was near (November 2010.) + +Django 1.4 takes that policy further and sets 8.2 as the minimum PostgreSQL +version it officially supports. |