Re: 10.0

Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>

From: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
To: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-05-13T15:34:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 13 May 2016 at 16:29, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well, one potential issues is that there may be projects which have
>> already coded in 9.6 checks for feature support.
>
> I suspect that won't be an issue (I never heard of it being for 7.5,
> which was released as 8.0 - but is smattered all over pgAdmin 3 for
> example) - largely because in such apps we're almost always checking
> for a version greater than or less than x.y.
>
> I imagine the bigger issue will be apps that have been written
> assuming the first part of the version number is only a single digit.

Is that likely?  That would be remarkably myopic, but I guess possible.

Thom