On 25 May 2013 18:13, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 10:39 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> The constraint on such changes is that we've decided that we must have
>> an upgrade path from release to release.
>
> Is this proposal only relaxing the binary upgrade requirement, or would
> it also relax other compatibility requirements, such as language and API
> compatibility?
I'm suggesting that as many as possible changes we would like to make
can happen in one release. This is for the benefit of users, so we
dont make every release a source of incompatibilities.
And that release should be the first one where we have online upgrade
possible, which is one after next.
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