Re: compatibilityissues from 7.1 to 7.4

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:01:20 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote

> Joel <rees@ddcom.co.jp> writes:
> > Any thoughts on the urgency of the move?
>
> How large is your pg_log file?  7.1 was the last release that had the
> transaction ID wraparound limitation (after 4G transactions your
> database fails...).  If pg_log is approaching a gig, you had better
> do something PDQ.

Great. Very low use (to this point) BBS and similar things, so it looks
like we'll miss this issue.

> More generally: essentially all of the data-loss bugs we've fixed lately
> existed also in 7.1.  The core committee made a policy decision some
> time ago that we wouldn't bother back-patching further than 7.2, however.
> The only reason 7.2 is still getting some patching attention is that it
> was the last pre-schema release, and so there might be some people out
> there with non-schema-aware applications who couldn't conveniently move
> up to 7.3 or later.  But once 8.0 is out we'll probably lose interest in
> supporting 7.2 as well.

Thanks for the answers. I think we have good motivation to proceed.

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Joel <rees@ddcom.co.jp>