Igor Neyman <iney...@perceptron.com> writes:
> From: Dave Johansen [mailto:davejohan...@gmail.com]
> This conversation has probably become a bit off topic, but my understanding
> is that what you're paying RedHat for is a stable platform for a long period
> of time. That means creating/backporting of fixes for security and other
> critical issues for packages that have been EOLed.
> Assuming the above is true, (which I beleve to be the case
> https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata ), I don't see what
> would prevent RedHat from making a patch and applying it to the latest 8.4
> release to resolve any newly discovered issues. Isn't that the whole point of
> open source and RedHat being able to do with the code what it wishes as long
> as it meets the requirements of the license? So are you claiming that RedHat
> doesn't/won't do this? Is incapable of doing this? Or am I missing something?
> Tom Lane is probably better authority on this issue.
> Letâs wait and see what he says.
That is in fact exactly what people pay Red Hat to do, and it was my job
to do it for Postgres when I worked there. I don't work there any more,
but I'm sure my replacement is entirely capable of back-patching fixes as
needed.
regards, tom lane
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