Re: Maintenance Policy? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Maintenance Policy?
Date
Msg-id 4A52F921.7080206@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Maintenance Policy?  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
Responses Re: Maintenance Policy?  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
Re: Maintenance Policy?  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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David E. Wheeler wrote:
> Howdy Hackers,
> 
> Is there a published maintenance policy somewhere? Something that says
> for how long the project supports minor releases of PostgreSQL. 

We don't have a published policy, but I believe an unofficial policy has
been to support minor releases for about 5 years.

> For
> example, does 7.4 still get bug fixes and minor releases? If not, how
> does one know when support for a major version has been dropped?

Hmm, I thought we dropped support for 7.4 a while ago, and there's no
download link for it on www.postgresql.org anymore. But looking at the
CVS history, I see that others are still committing fixes to 7.4 branch.

--  Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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