Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now?
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In response to Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

> The suggestion I started this thread with amounted to not bothering with
> pushing 7.4.x updates in update cycles where we'd made no "serious" bug
> fixes in it; which is a very long way from desupport.  Maybe an
> appropriate compromise is to announce now that 7.4 is in maintenance
> mode and will receive only really critical bug fixes (which are the only
> ones that 7.4.x users are going to pay attention to anyway, so nothing
> is lost); and that actual desupport will occur a year from now.

+1

Shall we set an exact date, such as October 1, 2009?

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