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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Banck <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Reports on obsolete Postgres versions
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 22:46:28 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <CA+TgmobckRVYV1E1ywOu7UhDsv08gSCRYy3kj9a6LrM6Pwz8xA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 10:15:18AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> I think that whatever we say here should focus on what we try to do or
> guarantee, not on what actions we think users ought to take, never
> mind must take. We can say that we try to avoid making any changes
> upon which an application might be relying -- but there surely is some
> weasel-wording there, because we have made such changes before in the
> name of security, and sometimes to fix bugs, and we will likely to do
> so again in the future. But it's not for us to decide how much testing
> is warranted. It's the user's system, not ours.

Yes, good point, let's tell whem what our goals are and they can decide
what testing they need.

> In the end, while I certainly don't mind improving the web page, I
> think that a lot of what we're seeing here probably has to do with the
> growing popularity and success of PostgreSQL. If you have more people
> using your software, you're also going to have more people using
> out-of-date versions of your software.

Yeah, probably, and we recently end-of-life'ed PG 11.

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  Bruce Momjian  <[email protected]>        https://momjian.us
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