Re: Reports on obsolete Postgres versions

Jeremy Schneider <schneider@ardentperf.com>

From: Jeremy Schneider <schneider@ardentperf.com>

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

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: 2024-03-13T18:47:00Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

> On Mar 13, 2024, at 11:39 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Huh, that wasn’t what I expected. I only started (in depth) working with PG around 9.6 and I definitely thought of “6” as the minor version. This is an interesting mailing list thread.

-Jeremy


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