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)

JD


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