On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 05:17:13PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 04:12:04PM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote: >> I've read that the use of the term "minor release" can be confusing. While >> the versioning page clearly describes what is eligible for a minor release, >> not everyone reads it, so I suspect that many folks think there are new >> features, etc. in minor releases. I think a "minor release" of Postgres is >> more similar to what other projects would call a "patch version." > > Well, we do say: > > While upgrading will always contain some level of risk, PostgreSQL > minor releases fix only frequently-encountered bugs, security issues, > and data corruption problems to reduce the risk associated with > upgrading. For minor releases, the community considers not upgrading to > be riskier than upgrading. > > but that is far down the page. Do we need to improve this?
I think making that note more visible would certainly be an improvement. -- Nathan Bossart Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
