On 04/21/2011 12:39 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
In fact, I've been wondering if we shouldn't consider extending the support window for 8.2 past the currently-planned December 2011. There seem to be quite a lot of people running that release precisely because the casting changes in 8.3 were so painful, and I think the incremental effort on our part to extend support for another year would be reasonably small.
The pending EOL for 8.2 is the only thing that keeps me sane when speaking with people who refuse to upgrade, yet complain that their 8.2 install is slow. This last month, that seems to be more than usual "why does autovacuum suck so much?" complaints that would all go away with an 8.3 upgrade. Extending the EOL is not doing any of these users a favor. Every day that goes by when someone is on a version of PostgreSQL that won't ever allow in-place upgrade is just making worse the eventual dump and reload they face worse. The time spent porting to 8.3 is a one-time thing; the suffering you get trying to have a 2011 sized database on 2006's 8.2 just keeps adding up the longer you postpone it.
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