-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:02:24 -0500 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> By chance I happened to notice in the release notes > > Release 7.3 > Release date: 2002-11-27 > > Man, it feels like a long time since that came out... 5 years was a long time ago :) > > There has been some discussion of making a project policy of dropping > support for old releases after five years. Should we consider > formally instituting that? Yes. > > I see that there are two or three minor bug fixes in the REL7_3_STABLE > branch since 7.3.20. Rather than just leaving those to rot, maybe the > actual policy should be "only one more update after 8.3 comes out". > > Comments, opinions? Release 7.3.21 with and EOL addendum :). E.g; this is the last release of 7.3 and 7.3 is now considered unsupported. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your > friend > - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ UNIQUE NOT NULL Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHTGtNATb/zqfZUUQRAl88AKCpMx0tfZpU8T8raSIMciB7qxdN5QCfdvOJ gbZY1k844q+xjqwGdntkoaY= =+cMu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq