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

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: PG 7.3 is five years old today
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Msg-id 200711271220.36523.josh@agliodbs.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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Tom,

> 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?

The community consensus I recall was three versions only.  Anything beyond 
that would be up to the vendors.

Mind you, I don't know what EDB guarentees but the Sun folks could end up 
patching everything back to 8.1 for the next 5 years depending on customer 
demand.  So I think 5 years will be a reality for us for the conceivable 
future.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco


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