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 -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance