> 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... The point is that I'm maintaining cyrus-imapd rpms for RedHat/Fedora and always try to provide maximum functionality with them. PostgreSQL 7.1 is still supported there, not by the PostgreSQL team but by RedHat, so that's not a security problem or whatever. However, I understand now that it doesn't make sense to support those old version with cyrus-imapd because of the changes on the PostgreSQL side. Simon ---- 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
