| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> |
| Cc: | Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Sami Imseih <samimseih(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Naga Appani <nagnrik(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me>, Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou(at)gmail(dot)com>, torikoshia <torikoshia(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Catversion bumps during beta (was Re: [Proposal] Expose internal MultiXact member count function for efficient monitoring) |
| Date: | 2026-09-22 16:12:31 |
| Message-ID: | 1185861.1790093551@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> writes:
> I don't really mind catversion bumps during the beta period in general,
> I'm in the camp that if there's a change that would make the release
> better and it's not particularly risky, it's better to still sneak it in.
> I feel I might be in the minority with that view though. Historically,
> we've avoided fixes that need catversion bumps late in the beta period,
> so that beta-testers don't need to pg_upgrade. I think that's a poor
> tradeoff, but if we're changing long-standing policy, the RMT probably
> isn't the right group for that. So, how do others feel?
IMO, we've avoided it, but that's not a blanket policy against it.
Making beta testers exercise pg_upgrade isn't without benefit.
IIUC, the issue here is that we think these new-in-v19 functions are
suboptimally named, and if we don't change the names now then we're
stuck with them. So I'm okay with a post-beta4 catversion bump
to do that.
regards, tom lane
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