Re: Reports on obsolete Postgres versions

Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>

From: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>, Jeremy Schneider <schneider@ardentperf.com>, Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-04-04T20:38:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 2:23 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

> -end-of-life (EOL) and no longer supported.
> +after its initial release. After this, a final minor version will be
> released
> +and the software will then be unsupported (end-of-life).


Would be a shame to lose the EOL acronym.

+Such upgrades might require manual changes to complete so always read
> +the release notes first.


Proposal:
"Such upgrades might require additional steps, so always read the release
notes first."

I went with frequently-encountered and low risk bugs".
>

But neither of those classifications are really true. Especially the "low
risk" part - I could see various ways a reader could wrongly interpret that.

Cheers,
Greg