Re: [CORE] EOL for 7.4?

Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Some people consider the extended support and easy upgrades of the RHEL5
> versions valuable enough that they have a strong preference to use the
> version of PostgreSQL that ships with it. Right now, when such people
> ask me about using 8.1 in that context, I tell them while it would be
> better if they ran something more recent, the performance of that
> version is reasonable and the bugs they might run into aren't that
> serious. This is not the case at all for either 7.4 or 8.0, which have
> been completely indefensible as versions to consider deploying for quite
> some time already.

Well, actually, if it's just "what will RH support", I just today got
launch commit on this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489479
which might change things a bit. PG 8.1 will be *in* RHEL5 until 2014,
but whether many people will still be using it is another question.

regards, tom lane