Hi,
I feel like we ought to trim the support for a few old versions from
pg_upgrade. In my particular case I don't really think it's reasonable
to test < 9.0 versions for pg_largeobject_metadata migrations. But I
think we should create a policy that's the default, leaving individual
cases aside.
I can see a few possible policies:
1) Support upgrading from the set of releases that were supported when
the pg_upgrade target version was released. While some will argue that
this is fairly short, people above it can still upgrade ~10 years
worth of versions with a single intermediary upgrade.
2) Same, but +2 releases or such.
3) Support until it gets too uncomfortable.
4) Support all versions remotely feasible (i.e. don't drop versions that
still can be compiled)
I personally think 1 is preferrable and 2 is acceptable.
Greetings,
Andres Freund