From: | "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now? |
Date: | 2008-09-18 15:25:10 |
Message-ID: | e3bc6859c5d802dbc4db155c8688d672@biglumber.com |
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> The handwriting has been on the wall for 7.4 ever since we agreed that
> 7.3 would be EOL'd at five years...
"Handwriting on the wall" is entirely unrelated to an offical,
published end of life date.
> It's not like people have to stop using it the moment we do our
> last release.
No, but if we are going to stop releasing revisions with critical bugfixes,
it is important that people know well in advance and can plan a migration
to a supported version.
Frankly, the whole pg_dump mess is what keeps many people on older versions,
somtimes including 7.4.
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Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
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