Thread: 7.4 Development

7.4 Development

From
Brad Nicholson
Date:
Have core announced when they will stop supporting 7.4?
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Re: 7.4 Development

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Brad Nicholson wrote:
> Have core announced when they will stop supporting 7.4?

No.

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Re: 7.4 Development

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
Brad,

> Have core announced when they will stop supporting 7.4?

Our stated policy has been to back-patch two versions before the current one.
That means that, after 8.2 is released, we could theoretically stop patching
7.4.   If, however, some commercial distributors of PostgreSQL continue to be
interested in contributing patches further back than that to the community,
then we're not going to reject them.

So, in short: 7.4 patching *could* stop later this year, but is more likely to
continue for some indefinite time beyond that.

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Re: 7.4 Development

From
"Jaime Casanova"
Date:
On 8/21/06, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Brad,
>
> > Have core announced when they will stop supporting 7.4?
>
> Our stated policy has been to back-patch two versions before the current one.
>

really? i have seen some patches on 7.3 branch few months ago...

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Re: 7.4 Development

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
Tatsuo,

> > So, in short: 7.4 patching *could* stop later this year, but is more
> > likely to continue for some indefinite time beyond that.
>
> I thought the back patching policy is *three* versions before, not two
> versions since we are currently supporting 7.3.

Nope, 7.3 is being back-patched currently but there is no promise that that
patching will continue.   I think this is on our web page somewhere ...

i.e. we *promise* to patch at least two versions back, and may patch more
if we feel like it (or more accurately if someone sponsors it) but
patching versions older than 2 versions old is NOT guarenteed.

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Re: 7.4 Development

From
Devrim GUNDUZ
Date:
Hello,

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 17:43 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > I thought the back patching policy is *three* versions before, not
> > two versions since we are currently supporting 7.3.

> Nope, 7.3 is being back-patched currently but there is no promise that
> that  patching will continue.   I think this is on our web page
> somewhere ..

AFAIR Tom has written that he will continue patching 7.3 for RHEL3 in
the name of Red Hat. So I can count is like a promise if I'm a RHEL3
customer. AFAIK it is about 3 years from now on if they will be
supporting RHEL 3 for 7 years, and 1 year from now on if the EOL is 1
year later (5-years support).

However I believe 7.4 will not live that long, since none of the RHEL
(or like) products contain PostgreSQL 7.4.

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Re: 7.4 Development

From
Robert Treat
Date:
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 07:38, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 17:43 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > I thought the back patching policy is *three* versions before, not
> > > two versions since we are currently supporting 7.3.
> >
> > Nope, 7.3 is being back-patched currently but there is no promise that
> > that  patching will continue.   I think this is on our web page
> > somewhere ..
>
> AFAIR Tom has written that he will continue patching 7.3 for RHEL3 in
> the name of Red Hat. So I can count is like a promise if I'm a RHEL3
> customer. AFAIK it is about 3 years from now on if they will be
> supporting RHEL 3 for 7 years, and 1 year from now on if the EOL is 1
> year later (5-years support).
>
> However I believe 7.4 will not live that long, since none of the RHEL
> (or like) products contain PostgreSQL 7.4.

I suspect 7.4 will hang on for awhile though as iirc it is the version
included with Debian stable.  While that doesn't seem like it would mean
much, I think that was one of the primary drivers of why 7.2 support stayed
around for so long.

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Re: 7.4 Development

From
Martin Marques
Date:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Robert Treat wrote:

> On Tuesday 29 August 2006 07:38, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> However I believe 7.4 will not live that long, since none of the RHEL
>> (or like) products contain PostgreSQL 7.4.
>
> I suspect 7.4 will hang on for awhile though as iirc it is the version
> included with Debian stable.  While that doesn't seem like it would mean
> much, I think that was one of the primary drivers of why 7.2 support stayed
> around for so long.

etch is in beta3, so there may be a new stable release, if everything goes
well, by the end of this year, and both 7.4 and 8.1 are at this moment in
etch (don't know if any of them will get whipped away before stable etch
is out).

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Re: 7.4 Development

From
Devrim GUNDUZ
Date:
Hello,

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 10:16 -0300, Martin Marques wrote:
> etch is in beta3, so there may be a new stable release, if everything
> goes  well, by the end of this year, and both 7.4 and 8.1 are at this
> moment in etch (don't know if any of them will get whipped away before
> stable etch is out).

Oh. Let's hope that the Debian folks will kick 7.4 out of etch...
Otherwise it will be again a pain like 7.2 for us...

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Re: 7.4 Development

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Am Dienstag, 29. August 2006 16:24 schrieb Devrim GUNDUZ:
> Oh. Let's hope that the Debian folks will kick 7.4 out of etch...

The probability of that happening is nil.

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Re: 7.4 Development

From
Devrim GUNDUZ
Date:
Hello,

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 16:36 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Oh. Let's hope that the Debian folks will kick 7.4 out of etch...
>
> The probability of that happening is nil.

Great. This means we'll have 7.4 users until Jun 30, 2009 (per the
schedule I remember).

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Re: 7.4 Development

From
"Joshua D. Drake"
Date:
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 29. August 2006 16:24 schrieb Devrim GUNDUZ:
>> Oh. Let's hope that the Debian folks will kick 7.4 out of etch...
>
> The probability of that happening is nil.
>

I think even Ubuntu offers 7.4.. But they also offer 81 and 80.

Joshua D. Drake

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Re: 7.4 Development

From
Martin Marques
Date:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:24:38 -0700, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Am Dienstag, 29. August 2006 16:24 schrieb Devrim GUNDUZ:
>>> Oh. Let's hope that the Debian folks will kick 7.4 out of etch...
>>
>> The probability of that happening is nil.
>>
>
> I think even Ubuntu offers 7.4.. But they also offer 81 and 80.

Etch offers 8.1. The question that remains is if any of them (7.4 or 8.1) gets kicked out of the final stable release
ofetch. 

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Re: 7.4 Development

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
All,

> Oh. Let's hope that the Debian folks will kick 7.4 out of etch...
> Otherwise it will be again a pain like 7.2 for us...

Hah, just wait.  Sun spec calls for supporting released versions of
PostgreSQL for Solaris for *6 years*.

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Re: 7.4 Development

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Martin Marques wrote:
> Etch offers 8.1. The question that remains is if any of them (7.4 or
> 8.1) gets kicked out of the final stable release of etch.

The answer is likely to be no.

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Re: 7.4 Development

From
David Fetter
Date:
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:41:42PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> All,
>
> > Oh. Let's hope that the Debian folks will kick 7.4 out of etch...
> > Otherwise it will be again a pain like 7.2 for us...
>
> Hah, just wait.  Sun spec calls for supporting released versions of
> PostgreSQL for Solaris for *6 years*.

I hope Sun's got a *lot* of money to throw at this because 6 years
from now, no one in the PostgreSQL community will even remember quirks
from 7.4, except in the vague sense of recalling that quirks existed.

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Re: 7.4 Development

From
Martin Marques
Date:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:58:01 -0700, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:41:42PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> > Oh. Let's hope that the Debian folks will kick 7.4 out of etch...
>> > Otherwise it will be again a pain like 7.2 for us...
>>
>> Hah, just wait.  Sun spec calls for supporting released versions of
>> PostgreSQL for Solaris for *6 years*.
>
> I hope Sun's got a *lot* of money to throw at this because 6 years
> from now, no one in the PostgreSQL community will even remember quirks
> from 7.4, except in the vague sense of recalling that quirks existed.

If I remember ok, 6 years ago we were with the brand new 7.0. :-)

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Re: 7.4 Development

From
"Joshua D. Drake"
Date:
David Fetter wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:41:42PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> All,
>>
>>> Oh. Let's hope that the Debian folks will kick 7.4 out of etch...
>>> Otherwise it will be again a pain like 7.2 for us...
>> Hah, just wait.  Sun spec calls for supporting released versions of
>> PostgreSQL for Solaris for *6 years*.
>
> I hope Sun's got a *lot* of money to throw at this because 6 years
> from now, no one in the PostgreSQL community will even remember quirks
> from 7.4, except in the vague sense of recalling that quirks existed.

I imagine something like this:

Yeah... I am running PostgreSQL 7.4 on Solaris 10 and I have...

Right about here, every consultant on the planet says, "Solaris still
exists?"

And:

"There was a PostgreSQL 7.4?"

(Disclaimer: I have nothing against Solaris)

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Cheers,
> D


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Re: 7.4 Development

From
Martin Marques
Date:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> I imagine something like this:
>
> Yeah... I am running PostgreSQL 7.4 on Solaris 10 and I have...
>
> Right about here, every consultant on the planet says, "Solaris still
> exists?"

pruebas=# SELECT version();
                              version
------------------------------------------------------------------
  PostgreSQL 7.4.3 on sparc-sun-solaris2.7, compiled by GCC 2.95.2
(1 row)

As you see, we still have one. :-(

Ofcourse, it's not a problem about upgrading PG, but that we want to
migrate Solaris to Linux, and that isn't so trivial, as there's a third
party database engine there (not PG).

> And:
>
> "There was a PostgreSQL 7.4?"
>
> (Disclaimer: I have nothing against Solaris)

I do. ;-)

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