Re: Minor version upgrades and extension packaging

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Mat Arye <mat(at)timescale(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Minor version upgrades and extension packaging
Date: 2018-02-12 04:14:49
Message-ID: 20180212041449.ptocww5tsktvqmgz@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2018-02-11 22:19:30 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Not sure what to do about it at this point. We could move that field to
> the end for 10.3, leaving 10.2 as the only ABI-incompatible minor release,
> but I don't know that that really makes things any better than leaving it
> as-is. Somewhere around the dot-two minor release is where uptake of a
> new PG branch starts to become significant, IME, so preserving ABI
> compatibility going forward from 10.2 might be more useful than preserving
> it against 10.0/10.1.

Yea, I think the damage is done in this case, and we shouldn't make
things even more complicated.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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