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

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> Maybe I'm some crazy, radical DBA, but I've never had a version of
>  >> pgsql get EOLed out from underneath me.
>
>  Just for fun, I did a bit of digging in the release notes
>  http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release.html
>  and came up with this table about PG major releases and their
>  follow-on bug fix/minor releases:
>
>  Version Release date    # updates       Days till final update  Days till next major
>
>  6.0     1997-01-29      0               0                       130
>  6.1     1997-06-08      1               44                      116
>  6.2     1997-10-02      1               15                      150
>  6.3     1998-03-01      2               37                      243
>  6.4     1998-10-30      2               51                      222
>  6.5     1999-06-09      3               126                     334
>  7.0     2000-05-08      3               187                     340
>  7.1     2001-04-13      3               124                     297
>  7.2     2002-02-04      8               1190                    296
>  7.3     2002-11-27      21              1867                    355
>  7.4     2003-11-17      19+             ?                       429
>  8.0     2005-01-19      15+             ?                       293
>  8.1     2005-11-08      11+             ?                       392
>  8.2     2006-12-05      7+              ?                       426
>  8.3     2008-02-04      1+              ?                       ?
>
>  It's pretty clear that there was a sea-change around 7.2/7.3 ---
>  before that, nobody thought that PG releases were anything that
>  might be long-lived.  And there's nothing in this table that
>  suggests we've really settled on a new lifespan ... other than that
>  we're still putting out new majors at a constant rate, and the community
>  hasn't got the resources or interest to maintain an ever-increasing
>  number of back branches.
>
>                         regards, tom lane

Not really Postgres's problem, but for whatever its worth if I do the
following on Debian stable:
$apt-get install postgresql

I get 7.4 . When I install Debian I generally expect the software to
be supported for a long time. Perhaps it might make sense to declare
it dead except for security issues?

--
Rob Wultsch
wultsch@gmail.com
wultsch (aim)