Robert Haas wrote: > > Again, to emphasize: many people are using 7.4, or 8.0, or 8.1, not because > > they necessarily want to, but they can't easily afford the downtime to > > upgrade. Cutting them off arbitrarily early won't win us any friends. Once > > pg_migrator (or better, in-place upgrades) is working well, we can start > > setting > > EOL on versions based on number of years of some other criteria. > > At the moment it doesn't seem likely that pg_migrator is *ever* going > to support upgrading from 7.4 or 8.0 or 8.1 to any later version.
Agreed. > I'm not saying that's good, but nobody's expressed much interest in > making in-place upgrade work even from an 8.2 base, let alone any > older version. For that matter, there's been no concerted effort to > resolve the limitations of the 8.3 -> 8.4 upgrade. It isn't > technically impossible for the 8.3 -> 8.5 path to be smoother than the > current 8.3 -> 8.4 path, but nobody seems excited about working on it. Agreed. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
