Re: How to modify ENUM datatypes? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: How to modify ENUM datatypes?
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Msg-id 16579.1209663601@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: How to modify ENUM datatypes?  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> And again, if you do the math, any install before 2008-11-17 would have been
> on 7.3, which is less than 5 years.

I'm not sure how you're doing the math, but my copy of the release notes
dates 7.3 as 2002-11-27 and 7.3.21 as 2008-01-07, which makes it five
years plus that we provided bug-fix releases for 7.3.

> Or, looking forward, I'm not expecting
> 7.4 will be supported beyond 2010 (there have already been calls to stop
> supporting it for some time) which is what would be required if we really
> have an expectation of support for more than 5 years.

7.4 was released 2003-11-17, so I think that it will very likely get
obsoleted at the end of 2008.

            regards, tom lane

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