Re: [CORE] EOL for 7.4?

Robert Haas wrote:
> > Again, to emphasize: many people are using 7.4, or 8.0, or 8.1, not because
> > they necessarily want to, but they can't easily afford the downtime to
> > upgrade. Cutting them off arbitrarily early won't win us any friends. Once
> > pg_migrator (or better, in-place upgrades) is working well, we can start setting
> > EOL on versions based on number of years of some other criteria.
>
> At the moment it doesn't seem likely that pg_migrator is *ever* going
> to support upgrading from 7.4 or 8.0 or 8.1 to any later version.

Agreed.

> I'm not saying that's good, but nobody's expressed much interest in
> making in-place upgrade work even from an 8.2 base, let alone any
> older version. For that matter, there's been no concerted effort to
> resolve the limitations of the 8.3 -> 8.4 upgrade. It isn't
> technically impossible for the 8.3 -> 8.5 path to be smoother than the
> current 8.3 -> 8.4 path, but nobody seems excited about working on it.

Agreed.

--
Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com

+ If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +