Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
+1 for de-supporting 7.3, and 7.4 if it's getting in the way. The
PostgreSQL project only promises to support 3 versions, and those are
8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 today.
Actually, I think 7.4 is still in use for production in many places, so
I'm not comfortable not supporting it yet. However, it's not getting
in the way. 7.3 is, so it's got to go. :)
7.4 is in currently shipping products (RHEL, Centos, for example).
The current Postgres policy as I understand it (and I think I ought to
;-) ) is that we promise support for a minumum period, but might well
support a given release for longer. There have in fact been bug fixes
committed for 7.3 not long ago, and I suspect it will be supported in
some fashion until RHAS2.1 is EOLed. OTOH, 7.2 is well and truly dead.
However, apps running on 7.3 should be have long been put in maintenance
mode, so I think we should be able to rip that stuff out of the main
line of DBD::Pg. The code I wanted to get rid of has this around it:
#if PGLIBVERSION < 70400
...
#endif
So I agree with Greg.
Maybe there's a case for a legacy branch. Probably not enough demand, though.
cheers
andrew
