Re: 7.4 Development

David Fetter wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:41:42PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> All,
>>
>>> Oh. Let's hope that the Debian folks will kick 7.4 out of etch...
>>> Otherwise it will be again a pain like 7.2 for us...
>> Hah, just wait.  Sun spec calls for supporting released versions of
>> PostgreSQL for Solaris for *6 years*.
>
> I hope Sun's got a *lot* of money to throw at this because 6 years
> from now, no one in the PostgreSQL community will even remember quirks
> from 7.4, except in the vague sense of recalling that quirks existed.

I imagine something like this:

Yeah... I am running PostgreSQL 7.4 on Solaris 10 and I have...

Right about here, every consultant on the planet says, "Solaris still
exists?"

And:

"There was a PostgreSQL 7.4?"

(Disclaimer: I have nothing against Solaris)

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Cheers,
> D


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