Greg Smith wrote: > On 04/21/2011 12:39 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > > 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. > > The pending EOL for 8.2 is the only thing that keeps me sane when > speaking with people who refuse to upgrade, yet complain that their 8.2 > install is slow. This last month, that seems to be more than usual "why > does autovacuum suck so much?" complaints that would all go away with an > 8.3 upgrade. Extending the EOL is not doing any of these users a > favor. Every day that goes by when someone is on a version of > PostgreSQL that won't ever allow in-place upgrade is just making worse > the eventual dump and reload they face worse. The time spent porting to > 8.3 is a one-time thing; the suffering you get trying to have a 2011 > sized database on 2006's 8.2 just keeps adding up the longer you > postpone it.
Interesting. You could argue that once 8.3 is our earliest supported release that we could even shrink the support window because the argument "I can't dump/reload my data" would be gone. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
