Re: PostgreSQL support

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost> writes:

>> Am 10.10.2015 um 19:29 schrieb Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>:
>> 
>> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> writes:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> given that PostgreSQL 9.0 has just reached EOL state, I'd like to cut
>>> down on the in-tree versions a bit and:
>>> 
>>> (1) Remove 8.4 and 9.0, both are EOLed.
>> 
>> I object this.
>
> I object your objection.  EOLed PostgreSQL versions don't receive any
> security fixes anymore and updating to a supported release is
> super-easy.

This doesn't matter at all. You have plenty of software that doesn't
receive _any_ bug fixes (it may have no users even), yet it is there
in pkgsrc. Why don't you attack those instead?

> EOLed PostgreSQL versions _have_ to be removed.

Not at all.


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