<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Feb 27, 2006, at 6:53 PM, Daniel Convissor wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:30:35AM +0200, Adrian Rossouw wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On 27 Feb 2006, at 7:18 AM, Chris Johnson wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Does anyone know of a good reason to maintain support for 7.3 and <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">earlier? Dropping 7.3 seems like it would solve this problem with <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">dropping columns, and probably a few other problems as well.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">+1</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Fine with me.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>But before I put forth an upgrade system patch doing that,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'd like to hear from a few more core devs, please.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I'm hardly a core developer, but I know something of the demand for PostgreSQL hosting. In my experience at the low-to-mid level, very very VERY few people use PostgreSQL. Like, on the order of .05% of hosted sites (including my own!). Since PostgresSQL is a fairly rare offering of commodity host, the providers that support it are more likely to be on their tows.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Beyond that, sites that use PostgreSQL are going have advanced technical requirements and better access to administrative support. They're all going to be running a version more current than 7.3, especially since we're talking about a minor revision update (7.4 or higher), which is an easy upgrade.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If we leave someone behind, maybe they will volunteer to backport :)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> <DIV>Allie Micka</DIV><DIV>pajunas interactive, inc.</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.pajunas.com">http://www.pajunas.com</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>scalable web hosting and open source strategies</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Courier New" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Courier New"></FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>