Re: New versioning scheme

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.  :-)

In my view, the principal advantage of the current system is that it
slow version number inflation.  Bumping the first version number every
year causes you to burn through ten numbers a decade rather than ~2,
and I find that appealing.

But of course that's a matter of opinion.

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