Re: EOL for 7.4? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: EOL for 7.4?
Date
Msg-id 1257265785.13207.4730.camel@ebony
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In response to Re: EOL for 7.4?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Re: EOL for 7.4?
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On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 13:01 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane escribió:
> 
> > A quick look in the cvs history shows 5 commits to 7.4 since the last
> > set of releases, 6 commits to 8.0, 8 to 8.1, 13 to 8.2, 18 to 8.3.
> > A couple of these patches were Windows-specific and were made only back
> > to 8.2 because we desupported Windows in older branches awhile back.
> > So far as I can see, the others were all made as far back as applicable.
> > I think the lack of churn in 7.4 just means it's gotten pretty darn
> > stable.
> 
> If it's all that stable, what's the point in EOLing it?  The only extra
> pain it causes is having to check whether each patch needs to be
> backpatched to it or not.

Agreed

Unless there are unfixable data loss bugs in it, I say we keep it.

Many people still run it, so why make them move?

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com



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