X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B899DCD86; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 01:16:06 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 86013-04; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 01:16:03 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from fetter.org (dsl092-188-065.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.188.65]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE3D9DCC1C; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 01:16:02 -0400 (AST) Received: from fetter.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by fetter.org (8.13.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jB15G0wi027850; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:16:00 -0800 Received: (from shackle@localhost) by fetter.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id jB15FxTx027849; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:15:59 -0800 Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:15:59 -0800 From: David Fetter To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: Robert Treat , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-www@postgresql.org, Tom Lane , Andrew Dunstan Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Upcoming PG re-releases Message-ID: <20051201051559.GA27630@fetter.org> References: <26656.1133366185@sss.pgh.pa.us> <438DCFB7.3040000@dunslane.net> <27165.1133368830@sss.pgh.pa.us> <200511301323.38351.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> <20051201013652.GB24009@fetter.org> <20051130235539.T1077@ganymede.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051130235539.T1077@ganymede.hub.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 required=5 tests=[none] X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200512/3 X-Sequence-Number: 8944 On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:56:33PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, David Fetter wrote: > > >On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:23:38PM -0500, Robert Treat wrote: > >>On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:40, Tom Lane wrote: > >>>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". > >> > >>Yeah, thats one of the reasons I am skeptical about having official > >>policies on this type of thing. > > > >I see this as an excellent reason to draw a bright, sharp line between > >what vendors support and what the community as a whole does, > >especially where individual community members wear another hat. > > So, if Sun, SRA, Pervasive, Command Prompt, etc were to submit a patch for > v7.2, we'd refuse it? That depends on what you mean by "refuse." Such a patch wouldn't resurrect the original Postgres with POSTQUEL and cause us to support it, and it won't cause us to start supporting PostgreSQL 7.2 again either. That said, there's a backports project on pgfoundry. We could see about something like an "attic" project for such patches, etc. This way, the community doesn't get albatrosses draped over its neck, and the patches are available for those interested :) Cheers, D -- David Fetter david@fetter.org http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote!