Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove pre-7.4 documentaiton mentions, now that 8.0 is the oldest

Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
>> <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
>>> per http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Release_Support_Policy 7.4 is
>>> still supported for a few months to come (and will be EOL'd together with
>>> 8.0). I'm also not really sure why we need to change stuff like that, this
>>> kind of information might still be useful for somebody trying to upgrade
>>> from an unsupported release to a supported one.
>>
>> Yeah.

> Well, the documentation still exists in the old releases, even 8.4. The
> big question is how much back-version information we should keep in our
> docs, and does it make sense to keep paragraphs around that are only
> meaningful to < 1% of people reading it. Some people are saying keep
> more, some are saying keep less, so I am betting I have hit the proper
> balance. ;-)

I didn't really agree with what you took out before, and I am definitely
going to object to this latest set of diffs. What it appears to me
you have done is a search-and-destroy on any paragraph mentioning "7.x",
without any consideration of whether that removes important information
from the overall presentation. Those paras are generally comparing old
and new behavior, and even if you don't care specifically what the old
behavior was, they present useful explanation of the new behavior.

I also agree with the objection that there are still lots of people who
are going to be trying to port old apps to 9.0.

regards, tom lane