All, > I agree that we should not reduce the support window. The fact that we > can do in place upgrades of the data only addresses one pain point in > upgrading. Large legacy apps require large retesting efforts when > upgrading, often followed by lots more work renovating the code for > backwards incompatibilities.
Definitely. Heck, I can't get half our clients to apply *update* releases because they have a required QA process which takes a month. And a lot of companies are just now deploying the 8.4 versions of their products. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com San Francisco -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers