Andreas Karlsson <andr...@proxel.se> writes: > On 2/12/20 12:07 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> But we do actually release on calendar year. While it seems not >> unreasonable that we might fail to ship in time, that would likely lead >> to one month, two months of delay. Four months? I don't think anybody >> even imagines such a long delay. It would be seen as utter, >> unacceptable failure of our release team.
> It has actually happened once: PostgreSQL 9.5 was released in 2016-01-07. Yeah; I don't think it's *that* unlikely for it to happen again. But my own principal concern about this mirrors what somebody else already pointed out: the one-major-release-per-year schedule is not engraved on any stone tablets. So I don't want to go to a release numbering system that depends on us doing it that way for the rest of time. regards, tom lane