Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now?

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now?
Date: 2008-09-20 16:27:02
Message-ID: a1b4070a378fd8d05e4fdf2b9becc74e@biglumber.com
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Tom Lane wrote:

> The suggestion I started this thread with amounted to not bothering with
> pushing 7.4.x updates in update cycles where we'd made no "serious" bug
> fixes in it; which is a very long way from desupport. Maybe an
> appropriate compromise is to announce now that 7.4 is in maintenance
> mode and will receive only really critical bug fixes (which are the only
> ones that 7.4.x users are going to pay attention to anyway, so nothing
> is lost); and that actual desupport will occur a year from now.

+1

Shall we set an exact date, such as October 1, 2009?

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