Re: 10.0
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>
Cc: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, David G Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Date: 2016-06-30T12:15:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Gavin Flower wrote: > I hate the rampant inflation associated with numbering schemes like FireFox > - the numbers of no meaning at all, other than something non-trivial has > been changed, with no indication at all about how non-trivial! I thought this horse had already been beaten to death -- apparently not? It was stated somewhere in these threads that the problem with the Firefox scheme is that they release new versions every six weeks, so naturally there is enormous version number inflation. In our case we would still release new versions once a year, so by 2026 (ten years from now) we would be releasing Postgres 19 while Firefox will be in version 133. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services