X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FD9A9DCD78 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:38:23 -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 02702-01 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:38:21 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DBDC9DCD2F for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:40:35 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAUGeUCO027166; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:40:30 -0500 (EST) To: Andrew Dunstan cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Upcoming PG re-releases In-reply-to: <438DCFB7.3040000@dunslane.net> References: <26656.1133366185@sss.pgh.pa.us> <438DCFB7.3040000@dunslane.net> Comments: In-reply-to Andrew Dunstan message dated "Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:13:43 -0500" Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:40:30 -0500 Message-ID: <27165.1133368830@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.004 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.004] X-Spam-Score: 0.004 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200511/1539 X-Sequence-Number: 76821 Andrew Dunstan 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