Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> I know I am way late to this thread, and I have only tried a cursory
> skim of it given the length, but have we made any kind of announcement
> (packagers at least?) that we intend to not support Postgres 18 with ssl
> on RHEL 7.9 and derivatives? Yes, RHEL 7 just passed EOL, but there is
> commercial extended support available until July 2028[1] which means
> many people will continue to use it.
PG v16 will be in-support until November 2028, so it's not like
we are leaving RHEL 7 completely in the lurch. I doubt that the
sort of people who are still running an EOL OS are looking to put
a bleeding-edge database on it, so this seems sufficient to me.
As for notifying packagers --- Red Hat themselves will certainly
not be trying to put new major versions of anything on RHEL 7,
and Devrim has stopped packaging newer PG for RHEL 7 altogether,
so who among them is going to care?
regards, tom lane
