Re: PG 7.3 is five years old today - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: PG 7.3 is five years old today
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Msg-id 20071127110858.792f3560@commandprompt.com
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In response to PG 7.3 is five years old today  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:02:24 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> By chance I happened to notice in the release notes
> 
> Release 7.3
> Release date: 2002-11-27
> 
> Man, it feels like a long time since that came out...

5 years was a long time ago :)

> 
> There has been some discussion of making a project policy of dropping
> support for old releases after five years.  Should we consider
> formally instituting that?

Yes.

> 
> I see that there are two or three minor bug fixes in the REL7_3_STABLE
> branch since 7.3.20.  Rather than just leaving those to rot, maybe the
> actual policy should be "only one more update after 8.3 comes out".
> 
> Comments, opinions?

Release 7.3.21 with and EOL addendum :). E.g; this is the last release
of 7.3 and 7.3 is now considered unsupported.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> 
>             regards, tom lane
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