On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 06:04:09PM +0100, Dave Page wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > [ man, this thread has totally outlived its title, could we change that? > > ?I'll start with this subtopic ] > > > > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > >> In fact, I've been wondering if we shouldn't consider extending the > >> support window for 8.2 past the currently-planned December 2011. > >> There seem to be quite a lot of people running that release precisely > >> because the casting changes in 8.3 were so painful, and I think the > >> incremental effort on our part to extend support for another year > >> would be reasonably small. ?I guess the brunt of the work would > >> actually fall on the packagers. ?It looks like we've done 5 point > >> releases of 8.2.x in the last year, so presumably if we did decide to > >> extend the EOL date by a year or so that's about how much incremental > >> effort would be needed. > > > > I agree that the incremental effort would not be so large, but what > > makes you think that the situation will change given another year? > > My expectation is that'd just mean people will do nothing about > > migrating for a year longer. > > > > More generally: it took a lot of argument to establish the current EOL > > policy, and bending it the first time anyone feels any actual pain > > will pretty much destroy the whole concept. > > It would also make at least one packager very unhappy as the 8.2 > Windows build is by far the hardest and most time consuming to do and > I happen to know he's been counting the days until it goes. > > More generally, keeping it for longer means we might end up supporting > 6 major releases at once. That may not be so much work on a day to day > basis, but it adds up to a lot at release times, which was one of the > reasons why we agreed on the 5 year support window. > > -- > Dave Page > Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com > Twitter: @pgsnake > > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company >
+1 for cutting the cord on 8.2. People using it still will need to use the last release available, upgrade, or consult to have a back-port/build made. Regards, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
