All,
> I agree that we should not reduce the support window. The fact that we
> can do in place upgrades of the data only addresses one pain point in
> upgrading. Large legacy apps require large retesting efforts when
> upgrading, often followed by lots more work renovating the code for
> backwards incompatibilities.
Definitely. Heck, I can't get half our clients to apply *update* releases because they have a required QA process
whichtakes a month. And a lot of companies are just now deploying the 8.4 versions of their products.
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com
San Francisco
