On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 11:35:09AM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > On Friday, January 26, 2018, Jim Ryan <jim@room118solutions.com> wrote: > > Hey Bruce, > > Thanks for working on this, but wouldn't pg_upgrade be needed from 10.1 to > 10.2? Aren't those considered major versions, or am I misunderstanding? > > The source of my (and potentially others) confusion is if from 9.1 to 9.2 > is considered a major version change or not. I think most users would > assume from 9.x to 10.x is a major version change. The ambiguity is in 9.x > to 9.y. > > > > Which is why we changed ;) > > Starting with 10 the one and only value after the decimal is a minor version > bug fix release. The next major version will be 11. > > Of versions beginning with 9 there were 7 major versions - 9.0 to 9.6; the > third position value denoted the minor bug fix release. > > pg-upgrade is only required for upgrading between major versions. > > On our homeoage we list every major release that is currently supported.
I decided I needed to be more explicit about the major version numbers so I have added major and minor examples for the 9.6.x series and 10.x series releases. Patch attached.
