Re: end of life for pg versions...

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 08:46:00AM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2008 8:04 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail(at)webthatworks(dot)it> wrote:
> > I did manage to find an announcement about the support of pg for
> > windows... but I wasn't able to see anything you'd have a summary of
> > scheduled and planned EOL for various pg versions (on different
> > platform).
>
> There have been some secondary sources for support that simultaneously
> promise longer support times than PGDG does...
>
> For instance, support for 7.3 has essentially ceased, but Red Hat has
> that included in some version(s) of their distributions that still
> have some time to run before they fall out of RHAT support. So if
> issues come up with 7.3, they *may* be indirectly addressed thru
> someone like RHAT.
>
> Similarly, Sun or EnterpriseDB may make support promises that exceed
> what PGDG offers.
>
> What you'll find, in practice, is that if you have issues with old
> versions, and report such, people will be quick to recommend upgrading
> to some version that is less ancient.
>
> Nothing has crystallized into a "real policy;" if someone feels like
> backpatching bug fixes back to 7.1, nothing is stopping them from
> doing so. But that takes more time and effort, so the eldest version
> that is now still getting patched is 7.4. And it is pretty plausible
> that that may change to 8.0 in the next year or so.

Please note that the only documented versioning oplicy we do have says
security fixes are only backpatched to 7.4 and later. And this change was
made as we released 7.3.21 early january.

//Magnus