Re: PG 7.3 is five years old today

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2007-11-27T20:20:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom,

> There has been some discussion of making a project policy of dropping
> support for old releases after five years.  Should we consider formally
> instituting that?

The community consensus I recall was three versions only.  Anything beyond 
that would be up to the vendors.

Mind you, I don't know what EDB guarentees but the Sun folks could end up 
patching everything back to 8.1 for the next 5 years depending on customer 
demand.  So I think 5 years will be a reality for us for the conceivable 
future.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco