Re: Minor version upgrades and extension packaging

On 2/11/18 23:14, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2018-02-11 22:19:30 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Not sure what to do about it at this point.  We could move that field to
>> the end for 10.3, leaving 10.2 as the only ABI-incompatible minor release,
>> but I don't know that that really makes things any better than leaving it
>> as-is.  Somewhere around the dot-two minor release is where uptake of a
>> new PG branch starts to become significant, IME, so preserving ABI
>> compatibility going forward from 10.2 might be more useful than preserving
>> it against 10.0/10.1.
> 
> Yea, I think the damage is done in this case, and we shouldn't make
> things even more complicated.

Yeah, lesson learned.  Sorry.

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