Re: Just for fun: Postgres 20?

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 2:14 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 09:46:48AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Yeah; I don't think it's *that* unlikely for it to happen again.  But
> > my own principal concern about this mirrors what somebody else already
> > pointed out: the one-major-release-per-year schedule is not engraved on
> > any stone tablets.  So I don't want to go to a release numbering system
> > that depends on us doing it that way for the rest of time.
>
> Yeah, it is good to keep some flexibility here, so my take is that
> there is little advantage in changing again the version numbering.
> Note that any change like that induces an extra cost for anybody
> maintaining builds of Postgres or any upgrade logic where the decision
> depends on the version number of the origin build and the target
> build.

+1

I also object because 20 is *my* unlucky number ...

cheers

andrew



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