Magnus Hagander <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Oct 16, 2014 12:58 AM, "Tom Lane" <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> That is in fact exactly what people pay Red Hat to do, and it was my job >> to do it for Postgres when I worked there. I don't work there any more, >> but I'm sure my replacement is entirely capable of back-patching fixes as >> needed. > Do they backpatch everything, or just things like security issues? (in sure > they can do either, but do you know what the policy says?) Security issues are high priority to fix, otherwise it takes (usually) complaints from paying customers and/or effective lobbying from the package's maintainer. They have finite bandwidth for package updates, and they also take seriously the idea that a RHEL release series is supposed to be a stable platform. When I was there I was usually able to get them to update to new PG minor releases only when said releases involved security fixes, otherwise the can got kicked down the road... > Either way it does also mean that the support requests for such versions > would need to go to redhat rather than the community lists at some point - > right now their 8.4 would be almost the same as ours, but down the road > they'll start separating more and more of course. If you want a fix in Red Hat's version of 8.4, you need to be talking to them *now*, not "at some point". The community lost any input into that when we stopped updating 8.4. > For the op - of you haven't already, is suggest you take a look at > yum.postgresql.org which will get you a modern, supported, postgresql > version for rhel 6. Regardless of the support, you get all the other > improvements in postgresql. Yeah. Also, Red Hat is shipping a newer version (I think 9.2.something) as part of their "software collections" packaging initiative. I do not know whether that's included in a standard RHEL subscription or costs extra. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
