Re: How to modify ENUM datatypes?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
Subject: Re: How to modify ENUM datatypes?
Date: 2008-05-01 17:40:01
Message-ID: 16579.1209663601@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> writes:
> And again, if you do the math, any install before 2008-11-17 would have been
> on 7.3, which is less than 5 years.

I'm not sure how you're doing the math, but my copy of the release notes
dates 7.3 as 2002-11-27 and 7.3.21 as 2008-01-07, which makes it five
years plus that we provided bug-fix releases for 7.3.

> Or, looking forward, I'm not expecting
> 7.4 will be supported beyond 2010 (there have already been calls to stop
> supporting it for some time) which is what would be required if we really
> have an expectation of support for more than 5 years.

7.4 was released 2003-11-17, so I think that it will very likely get
obsoleted at the end of 2008.

regards, tom lane

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