Kenneth Marshall wrote: > There have been 5 major releases of PostgreSQL since 7.2 was released > and 7.2 is EOL in the next few months. I think it is completely reasonable > to not support version 7.1/7.2 in a new system considering that 7.1 is > EOL and 7.2 will be shortly. > > Cheers, > Ken Oh seriously, don't even waste time worrying about it. 7.2 died a long time ago, 7.3 was EOL the beginning of this year [1], and 7.4 is about to go the same way real soon now. Normally adding 7.3 support is fairly easy if required, whereas going back to 7.2 is often a complete pain, plus you have to live with several unfixable data loss bugs... HTH, Mark. [1] http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905 -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
