"Harald Armin Massa" <haraldarminmassa@gmail.com> writes:
> Marc,
>> My thought was to keep the last version on each branch, up until what we
>> officially support, and get rid of the 'interum releases' (ie. v8.3RC1) ...
> I see one very, very compelling reason:
> - crash on old machine running any of that releases. The installation
> of PostgreSQL gets trashed by something (wild running virus i.e.)
> To access the files within pg_data you need the binaries of that
> version.
That's nonsense. The last release in the series will do fine, and
forcing an update to the last point release wouldn't be a bad thing
anyway ;-).
regards, tom lane