Tom Lane wrote:

It would be good to set some parameters before starting: how far
back is reasonable to support?  pg_dump goes back to 7.0 but that's now
mostly for historical reasons, ie, 7.0 was the immediately previous
release when we started making it do backwards-compatible dumps.  I'm
not sure it's worth the trouble to make psql go that far back.  "Back
to 8.0" would be a nice round figure...


Seems fair for an initial target of 8.2. Going forward a policy of "3 years or 3 releases back" seems about right. If people can't bring themselves to upgrade in that time they can be left on their own.

cheers

andrew

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