Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page <dpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I've been considering only maintaining the current and previous 2 >> versions in pgInstaller (the Windows binary distro). But that's a *lot* >> harder to maintain than just PostgreSQL because of all the bundled >> stuff. In other words, when 8.3 is out, the 8.0 series gets dropped. >> What do people think about that? Does anyone think it would be an >> unreasonable policy? > > Actually, I was just wondering last night about whether we should bother > maintaining the 8.0/8.1 Windows ports at all. Everybody knew going in > (or should have known) that 8.0 on Windows would be a pretty raw port > with a lot of issues, as indeed it was, and so long-term support for it > seems a bit pointless. Perhaps the 8.1 port was up to the point where > it would be sane to use for production, or maybe not. > > I haven't tracked Windows-specific issues particularly, but I think > there were at least some important patches we didn't back-port because > of complexity. Certainly 8.0 and 8.1 src/backend/port/win32/ files look > quite a bit different. Does anyone recall any specifics about Windows > patches that were back-ported or not? > > Anyway I think that a fair case could be made for dropping the 8.0 > branch now, and maybe 8.1 too, as far as Windows support goes. What > you want to do going forward is a different decision --- these are > edge cases because of the newness of the port. Based on that it would be reasonable to cut 8.0 short, I agree on that. However, I really don't think we can do that to 8.1. For one, 8.2 is *way* too new yet. I also do believe we got most of the really big ones between those (though I can't remember them specifically right now, it's a feeling I have). But the important part is that either way I think it's way too early to drop 8.1. //Magnus
