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.
> Let’s 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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