Tom Lane wrote:
Greg Smith <g...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
Some people consider the extended support and easy upgrades of the RHEL5
versions valuable enough that they have a strong preference to use the
version of PostgreSQL that ships with it. Right now, when such people
ask me about using 8.1 in that context, I tell them while it would be
better if they ran something more recent, the performance of that
version is reasonable and the bugs they might run into aren't that
serious. This is not the case at all for either 7.4 or 8.0, which have
been completely indefensible as versions to consider deploying for quite
some time already.
Well, actually, if it's just "what will RH support", I just today got
launch commit on this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489479
which might change things a bit. PG 8.1 will be *in* RHEL5 until 2014,
but whether many people will still be using it is another question.
Having 8.4 available and supported in RHEL5 will be nice. Maybe it was
spurred by the talk I gave on 8.4 a couple of weeks ago at RH HQ? (j/k).
But the issue for me is not what vendors support but how often we ask
someone to upgrade if they want to stay on a community supported base.
As I remarked before, other things being equal, I think five years is a
reasonable interval, and given that many users don't upgrade right on a
.0 release, I think a release lifetime of about six years is therefore
about right as a target.
cheers
andrew
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