Magnus Hagander wrote: > > >> NT4 is officially dead, IMHO no need for PostgreSQL to officially > > >> support it, let's leave place for companies offering commercial > > >> postgresql versions to work on it if they have enough > > customer requests. > > >> BTW Win 2000 is more or less 6 years old now ... > > I believe Microsoft has an official 10 year support policy. > > Although the don't backport all features (which makes sense). > > They're 10 years for "extended support". Only 5 years for "mainstream > support", meaning it has already passed. > > The difference? You can no longer get a hotfix unless you have a > specific "hotfix agreement", that you have to buy separate. You don't > get any no-charge incident support (that would be > support-because-of-a-bug). You don't get to make any feature requests > (though seriously, they hardly ever listen to you unless you're really > big anyway). And you don't get any "warranty claims", whatever that > means in reality. > > You do, however, get paid support and security hotfixes.
I think you know a little _too_ much about Microsoft support. :-) -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
