Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> On Thursday 01 May 2008 13:40, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.
I have never heard of anyone measuring product support lifespans from
any point other than the original release date. If you want to define
it in some random other fashion, that's your privilege, but it doesn't
change how I'm going to think about it.
regards, tom lane