On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 05:25:15PM +0100, Juan José Santamaría Flecha wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 3:47 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > > We could you use YYYY as version identifier, so people will not expect > correlative numbering. SQL Server is being released every couple of years > and they are using this naming shema. The problem would be releasing twice > the same year, but how likely would that be?
We've released more than one major version in a year before, so we have a track record of that actually happening. Best, David. -- David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
