Re: [MASSMAIL]Re: [pgsql-advocacy] First draft of Beta announcement

> On 05/12/2017 09:40 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Josh, Justin, Andres, Gunnar, Peter:
>
>> I disagree. As a rule, we don't break backwards compatibility so pg 10
>> is going to be a shock to a lot of people.  We really haven't seen this
>> quantity of breakage since 8.3, which was released nine years ago, long
>> before the majority of our current users were using Postgres.  Given
>> that -- because of partiitoning and logical replication -- many users
>> will want to upgrade to 10 the month it comes out, I think we need to
>> point out *in detail* why they will want to do extra testing.  At a
>> minimum, this includes the change in version numbering, the renaming of
>> xlog to wal, and dropping support for FEBE 1.0.
>
> In thinking about this, succinct may be much better:
>
> Version 10 *breaks compatibility* with previous versions. See the full
> details in the release notes at:
>
> Or
>
> V10 Breaks all the things. See the full details...
>
> I know the latter is out of our norm but everybody knows the break all
> the things meme (especially people that would be willing to beta test).
> Let's have "a little" fun but make it very clear.
>
> (I would not recommend that wording for final release)
>

+++1



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