Re: Lifecycle of PostgreSQL releases

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>, CAJ CAJ <pguser(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Lifecycle of PostgreSQL releases
Date: 2007-03-15 14:22:14
Message-ID: 20070315142214.GE5645@alvh.no-ip.org
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Joshua D. Drake escribió:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> >> Erik Jones wrote:
> >>> I really hope you meant upgrades to 8.2.x. And, no, it's not worth
> >>> waiting. Upgrade at the soonest available opportunity, expecially the
> >>> 7.4.x servers.
> >
> >> I don't really agree with this. If he is running 7.4.16 there very well
> >> may be zero compelling reason for him to upgrade.
> >
> > Really? There are any number of anecdotal reports of massive speed
> > improvements between 7.x and various 8.x versions. Not to mention a
> > few feature improvements.
>
> There is zero question that 8.2 is faster than 7.4 *but* if 7.4 isn't
> slow for them... Note, that I meant no reason for him to upgrade 7.4
> *right now*. He could wait for 8.3. (I think he should get off 7.4 in
> general)

He could wait for 8.4 as well, as it will be probably faster and have
more features than 8.3. Following your reasoning, one could wait
essentially forever.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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