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Re: Reports on obsolete Postgres versions

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jeremy Schneider <schneider@ardentperf.com>
Cc: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-03-13T18:39:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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.

			regards, tom lane