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PostgreSQL has a 5-year support window. I'm curious what negative consequences the author thinks PostgreSQL suffers as a result from that policy.
by jeffdavis 12y ago
PostgreSQL has a 5-year support window.
I'm curious what negative consequences the author thinks PostgreSQL suffers as a result from that policy.
- silvestrov 12y agoIt's a lot easier with a 5 year window for PostgreSQL: Kernel developers have to support all kinds of weird semi-buggy hardware that they can't buy in their country, they have to make the kernel work with badly written GPU drivers , and they have to deal with interrupt-level code which is notoriously difficult to debug.
- jeffdavis 12y agoThe author's primary example for the "LTS is bad claim" was glibc, which is not a kernel. Are you saying the "LTS is bad claim" only applies to kernels and other things very close to the hardware (closer than a database)?