Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Release Support Policy

2009-12-05 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 15:33 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > In any case there's no need for someone to move off a version instantly > the day after the last release for it. So I really don't see why you > think there would be "panic updates". Hmm, well, I wasn't imagining it as a wholly rational respon

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Release Support Policy

2009-12-05 Thread Tom Lane
Simon Riggs writes: > Could I request we change these dates slightly to The intent of the policy is that the last formal minor release for a branch will happen no earlier than the specified times. It might well be later, since we're not going to schedule updates specially for this --- it'd be wh

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Release Support Policy

2009-12-05 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:36 +, Dave Page wrote: > End Of Life (EOL) dates: > > Version EOL Date > PostgreSQL 7.4July 2010 (extended) > PostgreSQL 8.0July 2010 (extended) > PostgreSQL 8.1November 2010 > PostgreSQL 8.2December 2011 > Postgre

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Release Support Policy

2009-12-04 Thread Dave Page
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Andres Freund wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 04 December 2009 17:36:00 Dave Page wrote: >> Version                       EOL Date >> PostgreSQL 7.4        July 2010 (extended) >> PostgreSQL 8.0        July 2010 (extended) >> PostgreSQL 8.1        November 2010 >> Postgr

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Release Support Policy

2009-12-04 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On Friday 04 December 2009 17:36:00 Dave Page wrote: > Version EOL Date > PostgreSQL 7.4July 2010 (extended) > PostgreSQL 8.0July 2010 (extended) > PostgreSQL 8.1November 2010 > PostgreSQL 8.2December 2011 > PostgreSQL 8.3February 2

[HACKERS] PostgreSQL Release Support Policy

2009-12-04 Thread Dave Page
After a great deal of discussion in the community, the project's core team have written a policy outlining the support lifecycle for major PostgreSQL releases, which can be found on the wiki with other project policies at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Policies. We hope this document will help ou