Re: Upcoming PG re-releases

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Have we actually officially stopped supporting the 7.2 series?

Yeah, we have.  It reached the "too difficult to support" point already
(the VACUUM/ctid bug back in August --- the patch used in the later
branches wouldn't apply at all, IIRC).

> All this needs some announcement from the core trsam, IMNSHO - there has 
> been some confusion over it (e.g. I saw someone recently saying we had 
> stopped supporting the 7.3 series, which the above would seem to 
> indicate is not true).

Personally I expect to keep supporting 7.3 for a long while, because Red
Hat pays me to ;-) ... and the EOL date for RHEL3 is a long way away yet.
The PG community may stop bothering with 7.3 releases before that.  But
I think Marc and Bruce figure "as long as the patches are in our CVS we
may as well put out a release".

We hashed all this out in the pghackers list back in August, but I agree
there ought to be something about it on the website.

			regards, tom lane