On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Chris Browne <cbbrowne@xxxxxxx> wrote: > xzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Treat) writes: > > On Thursday 01 May 2008 13:40, Tom Lane wrote: > > >> 7.4 was released 2003-11-17, so I think that it will very likely get > >> obsoleted at the end of 2008. > >> > > If that's the case, it'd be nice to get an official statement of that now. :-) > > People have been making noises suggesting the idea already; I expect > that the flurry of counterarguments will start diminishing at that > point. Maybe I'm some crazy, radical DBA, but I've never had a version of pgsql get EOLed out from underneath me. I migrated from 7.4 to 8.1 right around the time 8.2 came out then upgraded to 8.2 around 6 months later. Where I work now we are looking at migrating from 8.1 to 8.2 or 8.3 (depending on whether or not we have the man power to fix a few issues with type coercion, our app, and 8.3) These aren't "the DBA got a wild hair and just had to upgrade" upgrades. Each time I've migrated it's been because there were performance or maintenance issues that were solved by upgrading. OTOH, a db I set up YEARS ago on 7.2 was still running last year I believe. they dump, initdb and reload it every year or two and it still works for what they designed the app on top of it to do.
