On 22/11/2018 00:47, Andres Freund wrote: > I can see a few possible policies: > > 1) Support upgrading from the set of releases that were supported when > the pg_upgrade target version was released. While some will argue that > this is fairly short, people above it can still upgrade ~10 years > worth of versions with a single intermediary upgrade. > 2) Same, but +2 releases or such. > 3) Support until it gets too uncomfortable. > 4) Support all versions remotely feasible (i.e. don't drop versions that > still can be compiled)
I would prefer #3. That's basically how we handle pg_dump, psql, etc. normally. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
