On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > On tor, 2012-05-03 at 17:39 +0100, Peter Geoghegan wrote: >> On 3 May 2012 17:21, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: >> > I think I was the only user left; I have never heard from a BSD/OS user >> > in the past 5-7 years. >> >> I'm inclined to agree with Bruce. While it's not reasonable to assume >> that the lack of a BSD/OS user complaining on -general indicates that >> there are none, it's also not reasonable for them to expect us to >> support their operating system for 8 years after the original >> proprietary vendor. Better to not support BSD/OS than to supply a port >> that no one really has any confidence in. It's not as if we've ceased >> support in release branches. > > I'm not so much opposed to removing the port. I am more concerned about > the manner in which it was done. The other ports I removed were known > to not work anyway, for years, and there were at least several days of > discussion. The bsdi case was removing a working port with less than 24 > hours notice.
There is enough time until 9.2-final for a BSD/OS user raise complaints. -- marko -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
