Re: New versioning scheme

On 05/12/2016 08:54 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com> wrote:
>> Exactly.  I think it is time for us to realize that our beloved "major.minor"
>> versioning is a failure, both at a marketing and a technical level. It's a
>> lofty idea, but causes way more harm than good in real life. People on
>> pgsql-hackers know that 9.1 and 9.5 are wildly different beasts. Clients?
>> They are running "Postgres 9". So I'm all in favor of doing away with
>> major and minor.
>
> I'm not.  I've had people be confused about that, but not often.
> Maybe my clients are smarter than yours.  :-)

I have to say that I don't run into it all that much either. Yes,
sometimes but it is rare and the clients that don't understand it after
a 30 second explanation aren't going to understand why 9 is more
important than 10 without explanation either.

JD



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