Re: PostgreSQL Timeline

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Timeline
Date: 2013-10-05 05:35:46
Message-ID: 524FA532.4030704@agliodbs.com
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On 10/04/2013 10:26 PM, Mike Toews wrote:
> Also, I picked up on two EOL date errors from
> http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/
>
> Version | Current minor | EOL date
> 8.1 | 8.1.23 | November 2010
> 7.3 | 7.3.21 | November 2007
>
> But 8.1.23 was released 2010-12-16, and 7.3.21 was released
> 2008-01-07. It looks like these releases were supported up to at least
> December 2010, and January 2008, respectively.

That's not a history document, it's a policy of "how long we promise to
release update releases". In the past, when update releases were a lot
more erratic in frequency, that sometimes meant that the "last" update
came out a few months after the official EOL date.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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