On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Indeed. I think the compromise we've usually settled on is "we'll
> support release X as long as there's somebody willing to do the work".
> If it's not costing you personally any effort, why object to someone
> else wanting to spend effort on such things?
I don't think this is really the issue. It's usually - as here - about
what we could clean up or simplify by removing support for old
versions, as against the inconvenience caused to people who still want
to use those old versions. So it's often the people who are
volunteering to do the work want to break things for the people who
aren't doing anything except objecting to the breakage.
But it seems impossible to have rational discussions about this,
because - if I may exaggerate slightly for effect - some of us think
everyone with half a brain should upgrade within a week or two when a
new version comes out, while others of us think that there might be
someone out there who still has a working PDP-11. Since any policy
that anyone is likely to actually propose falls somewhere between
those two extremes, half of us are then bitterly unhappy with it.
--
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
