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VPOP3 version 5-6 use PostgreSQL 9.1 as the database backend. PostgreSQL 9.1 was marked EOL (End-of-life) in September 2016. It still works fine, so there will be no problems continuing to use it in VPOP3 versions 5-6, but we decided to use a later version of PostgreSQL in later versions of VPOP3, both for continuing support & bugfixes and for newer features that are available in later versions of PostgreSQL. | VPOP3 version 5-6 use PostgreSQL 9.1 as the database backend. PostgreSQL 9.1 was marked EOL (End-of-life) in September 2016. It still works fine, so there will be no problems continuing to use it in VPOP3 versions 5-6, but we decided to use a later version of PostgreSQL in later versions of VPOP3, both for continuing support & bugfixes and for newer features that are available in later versions of PostgreSQL. | ||
- | So, VPOP3 version 7 uses PostgreSQL 9.5 as the database backend. (We chose not to use 9.6 because that is too new) | + | So, VPOP3 version 7 uses PostgreSQL 9.5 as the database backend. (We chose not to use 9.6 because that was too new when VPOP3 v7.0 was released) |
You cannot just replace the executable files to upgrade PostgreSQL. You need to upgrade the database files as well. | You cannot just replace the executable files to upgrade PostgreSQL. You need to upgrade the database files as well. |