Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now?

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> The handwriting has been on the wall for 7.4 ever since we agreed that
> 7.3 would be EOL'd at five years...

"Handwriting on the wall" is entirely unrelated to an offical,
published end of life date.

> It's not like people have to stop using it the moment we do our
> last release.

No, but if we are going to stop releasing revisions with critical bugfixes,
it is important that people know well in advance and can plan a migration
to a supported version.

Frankly, the whole pg_dump mess is what keeps many people on older versions,
somtimes including 7.4.

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