About 8 months ago I posted a topic asking if anyone still needed Sequel 
to support Ruby 1.8.6 
(https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/sequel-talk/NmvfI-mej3Q).  
There have been no positive responses in 8 months, so I take that as a sign 
that nobody needs such support anymore.  There's probably half a dozen 
places where Sequel goes out of it's way to support Ruby 1.8.6, and I'd 
like to get rid of those.

At the same time, Sequel has quite a bit of code that supports old (<8.2) 
versions of PostgreSQL, related to how it gets the primary key value for 
the last inserted row.  8.2 and higher PostgreSQL versions can use "INSERT 
... RETURNING primary_key_column", which is much simpler for Sequel to 
implement.  As ruby-pg has dropped support for PostgreSQL <8.3, and 
PostgreSQL no longer supports <8.3, I think that Sequel dropping support 
for PostgreSQL <8.2 is fairly reasonable.

Consider this message as a last call.  If you are using Sequel with Ruby 
1.8.6 or PostgreSQL <8.2, you need to post here before the end of the month 
requesting the support not be removed or I'll be deprecating the support in 
3.34.0 and removing it in 3.35.0.

Note that I have no plans to stop supporting Sequel on Ruby 1.8.7.  Sequel 
will probably support Ruby 1.8.7 long after it is unsupported by the Ruby 
developers.

Thanks,
Jeremy

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