Re: Minor version upgrades and extension packaging - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Minor version upgrades and extension packaging
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Msg-id 20180212041449.ptocww5tsktvqmgz@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Minor version upgrades and extension packaging  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Minor version upgrades and extension packaging  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 2018-02-11 22:19:30 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Not sure what to do about it at this point.  We could move that field to
> the end for 10.3, leaving 10.2 as the only ABI-incompatible minor release,
> but I don't know that that really makes things any better than leaving it
> as-is.  Somewhere around the dot-two minor release is where uptake of a
> new PG branch starts to become significant, IME, so preserving ABI
> compatibility going forward from 10.2 might be more useful than preserving
> it against 10.0/10.1.

Yea, I think the damage is done in this case, and we shouldn't make
things even more complicated.

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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