Re: EOL for 8.2 (was Re: Formatting Curmudgeons WAS: MMAP Buffers) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: EOL for 8.2 (was Re: Formatting Curmudgeons WAS: MMAP Buffers)
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In response to Re: EOL for 8.2 (was Re: Formatting Curmudgeons WAS: MMAP Buffers)  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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On 04/21/2011 05:17 PM, Greg Stark wrote:
> what version of Postgres was shipped in the last supported
> releases of major distributions? I think it was 8.1 in Ubuntu Hardy
> and 8.4 in Ubuntu Lucid so that's irrelevant. What about Redhat and
> Debian?


IIRC RedHat has a ten year EOL policy, so what they have shipped in old 
releases should not really bind us. In any case, our EOL policy only 
affects what formal releases we make. We can commit fixes to branches 
past their EOL date, and IIRC Tom did this not long ago.

cheers

andrew



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