Re: [CORE] EOL for 7.4?

Tom Lane wrote:
> The other side of the coin is that people running such old versions are
> in it for stability --- they don't *want* bugs fixed, unless they're
> bugs they've hit themselves.  Major fixes that would possibly
> destabilize the code base would be exactly what's not wanted.  Every
> time I get Red Hat to ship an update version, it's only after fighting
> tooth and nail to do a "rebase" instead of cherry-picking just the fixes
> for bugs that paying customers have specifically complained about.  The
> fact that we're pretty conservative about what we back-patch is the only
> reason I ever win any of those arguments.
>
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I don't find anything wrong with this picture. The other upside of our 
being conservative about what we back-patch is that users have much more 
confidence in the community edition. If we were less so, we'd find more 
users on older, vendor-supported versions, which would be more out of 
date than they are now, for the reasons Tom outlines above.

cheers

andrew