> On Mar 13, 2024, at 11:39 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Jeremy Schneider <schneider@ardentperf.com> writes:
>>> On 3/13/24 11:21 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Agreed, we would probably add confusion not reduce it if we were to
>>> change our longstanding nomenclature for this.
>
>> Before v10, the quarterly maintenance updates were unambiguously and
>> always called patch releases
>
> I think that's highly revisionist history. I've always called them
> minor releases, and I don't recall other people using different
> terminology. I believe the leadoff text on
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/
>
> is much older than when we switched from two-part major version
> numbers to one-part major version numbers.
Huh, that wasn’t what I expected. I only started (in depth) working with PG around 9.6 and I definitely thought of “6”
asthe minor version. This is an interesting mailing list thread.
-Jeremy
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