On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 10:12 AM Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 23:36, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > I'm not for dropping support for some platform just because it's old.
>
> I guess I'll have to spin up the Vax again :)
This is a pretty good summary of what's wrong with our current
deprecation policy. Like Tom, I kind of hate removing support for old
systems. But I've also come to realize that we often end up supporting
systems because there's one PostgreSQL developer who has access and
sets up a buildfarm member ... which tends to mean that we support all
the stuff that lots of people are using, plus a pretty random subset
of older systems that do funny things and most people can't access to
debug any problems that may occur. And that's kind of annoying.
(I don't have a specific proposal for what to do about it.)
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Robert Haas
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