Re: Minor version upgrades and extension packaging

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Mat Arye <mat(at)timescale(dot)com>, 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 13:41:17
Message-ID: 2062a54c-6963-c6eb-4604-072a748ab441@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2/11/18 23:14, Andres Freund wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, lesson learned. Sorry.

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