Re: Cutting support for OpenSSL 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 in 17~?

On 8/5/24 09:14, Tom Lane wrote:
> Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
>> I know I am way late to this thread, and I have only tried a cursory
>> skim of it given the length, but have we made any kind of announcement
>> (packagers at least?) that we intend to not support Postgres 18 with ssl
>> on RHEL 7.9 and derivatives? Yes, RHEL 7 just passed EOL, but there is
>> commercial extended support available until July 2028[1] which means
>> many people will continue to use it.
>
> PG v16 will be in-support until November 2028, so it's not like
> we are leaving RHEL 7 completely in the lurch. I doubt that the
> sort of people who are still running an EOL OS are looking to put
> a bleeding-edge database on it, so this seems sufficient to me.

ok

> As for notifying packagers --- Red Hat themselves will certainly
> not be trying to put new major versions of anything on RHEL 7,
> and Devrim has stopped packaging newer PG for RHEL 7 altogether,
> so who among them is going to care?

Perhaps no one on packagers. It would not shock me to see complaints
from others after we rip out support for 1.0.2, but maybe not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
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