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> I don't understand this, as soon as we released 8.0 you could take that as > advance warning that 7.4 was going to be desupported someday. So in that sense > they've had four years warning that this time was coming. The fact that the > date wasn't set in stone doesn't change their decision-making process. That's silly, why would they think that? We did not have a policy when 8.0 came out as to how long branches were supported, nor was there any way to gauge how often releases were coming out. Should people on 8.2 have been thinking the same thing about 7 months ago when 8.3 came out? Recall that our numbering has been historically somewhat arbitrary as well (7.4 should probably have been 8.0, for example). I guess I don't understand where Joe User was supposed to have gotten the message that 7.4 was on its last legs. If anything, the fact that it is on patchlevel 21 suggests otherwise. Us hackers and developers shudder at seeing a 7.4 database, but there are plenty of businesses who are still using it, and I think we owe it to them to give more advance warning that no more patchlevels are coming along than 3 months. Additionally, I don't know that it's possible to state up front how long a particular major release is going to be supported, as some have suggested. I think it's a great idea, but we tend to release "when we are ready", so any guess is only ever a guess. Further, as our product gets better and better, there will be an ever-increasing tendency to *not* upgrade to the latest and greatest, since the version they have already kicks ass, thank you very much[1]. [1] 8.3 rocks, by the way, thanks to all involved. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200809191545 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREDAAYFAkjUAv4ACgkQvJuQZxSWSsiWCgCeJTIAgYLpP1fAdEQ59Bmik22p zGUAnRKciEyjpW9OqQey38JI24ei+bB8 =BRte -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
