Re: [CORE] EOL for 7.4?

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.

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