my vote:
>>> I can never remember, on what schedule do we remove old versions? Did we
>>> say "keep current and one older"? In that case, there is some removing
>>> to do as well... In binary, for example, we have 8.2.5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and
>>> 10 ATM - that just seems like a waste of space to me. For source, we
>>> have 8.2.7, 9 and 10, and in the 8.3 series 8.3.1, 3 and 4. We also have
>>> source/OLD which has 8.3.0, 8.2.5 and 8.2.6. All in all, seems we're not
>>> very consistent :-(
I recommend to keep all versions including binaries available. Space is cheap.
Finding a policy is hard.
Finding an old version because only available backup are some rescued
pg_data directories from a harddrive that ended its live in the middle
of a night in the middle of a national holiday is hard.
Of course, officially x.y.n releases are compatible for different n.
But in an emergency I would feel better when not needing this
compatibility.
Harald
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