Re: 10.0

Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>

From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
Date: 2016-05-13T15:39:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2016-05-13 10:34, Thom Brown wrote:
> 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
We (FreeBSD) had lots of that kind of fallout when 9->10.  Autoconf, and 
other tools
thought we were a.out and not ELF.


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