Re: New versioning scheme - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Darren Duncan
Subject Re: New versioning scheme
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Msg-id 57357A53.1070301@darrenduncan.net
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In response to Re: New versioning scheme  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: New versioning scheme  (Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>)
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On 2016-05-12 8:54 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> In my view, the principal advantage of the current system is that it
> slow version number inflation.  Bumping the first version number every
> year causes you to burn through ten numbers a decade rather than ~2,
> and I find that appealing.
>
> But of course that's a matter of opinion.

This implies that numbers are a scarce resource, which they are not, we have an
infinite number of them.  Also mind that even going this way, we aren't going to
get to the end of the 2-digit major versions for a century. -- Darren Duncan



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