Re: 10.0 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: 10.0
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Msg-id CAA-aLv6S4DpNgUfcsvMmw8J4W7nf1-datFfE87rfMwGNfuVhAA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: 10.0  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
Responses Re: 10.0  (Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>)
Re: 10.0  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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On 13 May 2016 at 16:29, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well, one potential issues is that there may be projects which have
>> already coded in 9.6 checks for feature support.
>
> I suspect that won't be an issue (I never heard of it being for 7.5,
> which was released as 8.0 - but is smattered all over pgAdmin 3 for
> example) - largely because in such apps we're almost always checking
> for a version greater than or less than x.y.
>
> I imagine the bigger issue will be apps that have been written
> assuming the first part of the version number is only a single digit.

Is that likely?  That would be remarkably myopic, but I guess possible.

Thom



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