On Thursday 01 May 2008 13:40, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.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.
>
The whole thing started with "If I were to have installed postgres 5 years
ago", which would be 2003-05-01, then I would not have gotten 5 years of
support from that system. Essentially that statement is true of any install
up to the 7.4 release.
> > 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.
>
If that's the case, it'd be nice to get an official statement of that now. :-)
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Robert Treat
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