Robert Haas wrote:
>> I'm not averse to EOL'ing 7.4, but I don't think it's fair to claim that
>> we already stopped supporting it.
>>
>
> Well, that would be overstating my position. We haven't stopped
> supporting it, but there's less and less stuff that applies that far
> back. I think it's better to draw a line in the sand and say "we're
> going to stop supporting this release on this date" rather than
> letting it go on and on and then waking up and realizing "hmm, nothing
> ever applies that far back any more, I guess we don't support it".
>
>
>
I think you are mis-diagnosing the reason not everything gets
backpatched that far. It's not that we can't, it's that we don't always
need to.
cheers
andrew
