Re: Can we revisit the thought of PostgreSQL 7.2.4? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Can we revisit the thought of PostgreSQL 7.2.4?
Date
Msg-id 200301180516.h0I5G0G02227@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Can we revisit the thought of PostgreSQL 7.2.4?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Can we revisit the thought of PostgreSQL 7.2.4?  (Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>)
Re: Can we revisit the thought of PostgreSQL 7.2.4?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Red Hat 6.2 is still nominally supported (until March 31, it says here)
> so I suppose there's a corporate compulsion to back-patch anything
> that's labeled a security issue.  But let's get real ... PG 6.anything
> is stone-age code now.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
>             Red Hat Database project
> 
> PS: I'm not taking a position on Justin's suggestion that there should
> be a 7.2.4.  Marc and Bruce would be the ones who have to do the work,
> so they get to make the decision...

Who, us?  Well, there is the confusion factor of releasing a patch to a
superceeded major version.  Wrapping it up and putting it out really
isn't a big deal.  Marc?

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