Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>   
>> What I was trying to suggest was that right now, there are situations 
>> where a new deployment on 8.1 is still completely reasonable and 
>> possible to justify in the Enterprise Linux space, whereas I don't know 
>> of any situation where 7.4/8.0 can be similarly defended as a good 
>> idea.
>>     
>
> Okay, but how much of the argument for that hinges on it being the only
> thing Red Hat will support on RHEL5?
>   
Sure, at some point in 2010, we may reach a point where it would be ill 
advised to build a new system using RHEL5/PG8.1.  I was suggesting more 
that there are completely reasonable reasons to deploy 8.1 even right 
now in 2009, and people are doing so.  That gives the release a lot more 
future than 7.4 and 8.0, which anyone sensible gave up on a while ago.  
I'm all for dropping those older ones, but I don't think getting more 
aggressive than that and bundling 8.1 in while you're at it is so wise.

-- 
Greg Smith    2ndQuadrant   Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
greg(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com  www.2ndQuadrant.com

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