Re: Predicted lifespan of different PostgreSQL branches

[Dave Page <dpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oisin Glynn wrote:
> My 8.2c,
> Having 8.1 end of life this soon after the release of 8.2 seems pretty 
> harsh.  

Yeah, I agree. In part I'm basing the idea to support the current and 2 
previous branches on the amount of work required to build a complete set 
of point releases in one go - 3 seems manageable over a weekend. 4 would 
 probably be possible, but would be more rushed than I'd like.

Also, three just seems like a sensible number to maintain. I kinda like 
Magnus' idea to put older releases into a sort of 'retired' mode though, 
and build only the binaries for PostgreSQL itself.

Regards, Dave.