Re: New version numbering practices

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: New version numbering practices
Date: 2016-08-15 21:31:27
Message-ID: 27647.1471296687@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> I've pushed this with minor additional twiddling. We can work on the
> "UI issues" you mentioned at leisure. One that I noted is that psql's
> version-mismatch-warning messages aren't two-part-version aware, and
> will print "10.0" where they should say "10". Probably that fix should
> get back-patched, so that older psql branches will do the right thing
> if possible.

Attached is a WIP patch for that. I've only fixed psql/command.c
so far, but I put the support logic into fe_utils since we're going
to need it in some other places too (pg_dump at least). Any objections
to this general approach?

regards, tom lane

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