Re: rpm support for 7.4 and beyond

Tom Lane wrote:

>Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> writes:
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>>Also (and maybe someone from Red Hat can weigh in here) are there any
>>plans from Red Hat to release RHEL rpms for postgresql in the future,
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>I can tell you that Red Hat is getting beat up regularly for having
>omitted Postgres (and MySQL!) from RHEL 3. If you are a paying RHEL
>customer, make sure you let them know you're not happy about it.
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>Upper management keep changing their mind about how exactly they want
>to support these databases on RHEL --- well, okay, that's a business
>decision and outside my sphere as an engineer. But in the meantime the
>effective support is "none at all", and people have got to hold their
>feet to the fire about it.
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I just spent 15 minutes searching on the RH web site trying to locate a
complete list of packages in the various RHEL personalities, with
conspicuous lack of success. How anyone can make decisions about it
without knowing exactly what is in it is beyond me.

To answer Robert's original question, I suspect that there will be many
corporate and individual users of RH 7.x, 8 and 9 for quite some time,
and providing RPMs for these will be highly desirable. I currently have
access to one of each of these (fairly vanilla installations, too), and
can help out if need be while that lasts - I have no plans to upgrade
any of them right now, and would only want to do so if some critical
issue came up that forced it - we are behind a firewall so even remote
root exploits might not make me upgrade.

cheers

andrew