Re: pgsql: Remove pre-7.4 documentaiton mentions, now that 8.0 is the oldest - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pgsql: Remove pre-7.4 documentaiton mentions, now that 8.0 is the oldest
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Msg-id 201002241520.o1OFK6603541@momjian.us
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In response to Re: pgsql: Remove pre-7.4 documentaiton mentions, now that 8.0 is the oldest  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Remove pre-7.4 documentaiton mentions, now that 8.0 is the oldest  (Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>)
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Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
> <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>
> >> Log Message:
> >> -----------
> >> Remove pre-7.4 documentaiton mentions, now that 8.0 is the oldest
> >> supported release.
> >
> > per http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Release_Support_Policy 7.4 is
> > still supported for a few months to come (and will be EOL'd together with
> > 8.0). I'm also not really sure why we need to change stuff like that, this
> > kind of information might still be useful for somebody trying to upgrade
> > from an unsupported release to a supported one.
>
> Yeah.

Well, the documentation still exists in the old releases, even 8.4.  The
big question is how much back-version information we should keep in our
docs, and does it make sense to keep paragraphs around that are only
meaningful to < 1% of people reading it.  Some people are saying keep
more, some are saying keep less, so I am betting I have hit the proper
balance.  ;-)

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