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

> On 05/12/2017 11:22 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 5/10/17 20:01, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> Folks:
>>>
>>> Read it here:
>>>
>>>
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=press.git;a=blob;f=releases/10/beta/10beta1.md;h=f0d2e6ad2637281194ce212f9b7553eff1301c58;hb=HEAD
>>>
>>> Please comment with improvements/suggestions/corrections, or submit
>>> them
>>> to the git repo if you have access.
>>
>> I think the part about "an unusually high number of
>> backwards-incompatible changes" is unnecessarily scary.  The number of
>> incompatible changes in the release notes is only slightly higher than
>> in previous releases (10: 19, 9.6: 13, 9.5: 12, 9.4: 22), and half of
>> those are removing ancient junk that no one was using.
>>
>> I get that we want people to test and adjust their applications as early
>> as possible, but how about something like this instead: "Version 10
>> contains a few changes that are incompatible with prior major releases.
>> We encourage all users test it against their applications and platforms
>> as soon as possible."
>
> Ok, I seem to be outvoted on this.  How about this as a compromise:
>
> Version 10 contains a few changes that are incompatible with prior major
> releases, particularly renaming "xlog" to "wal" and a change in version
> numbering. We encourage all users test it against their applications and
> platforms as soon as possible.  See the Release Notes and the What's New
> page for more details.
>

In Cuba we are already accustomed to hearing incompatibility between
windown versions, Oracle etc. It will sound bad to hear is termino in the
Postgresql world.


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Saludos,
Gilberto Castillo
ETECSA, La Habana, Cuba