Re: Just for fun: Postgres 20?

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 7:19 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > I also object because 20 is *my* unlucky number ...
>
> Not sure how serious Andrew is being here, but it does open up an
> important point: there are varying opinions on which numbers are unlucky.
> The idea that 13 is unlucky is Western, and maybe even only common in
> English-speaking countries. In Asia, numbers containing the digit 4
> are considered unlucky [1], and there are probably other rules in other
> cultures. If we establish a precedent that we'll skip release numbers
> for non-technical reasons, I'm afraid we'll be right back in the mess
> we sought to avoid, whereby nearly every year we had an argument about
> what the next release number would be. So let's not go there.
>
>

Yes, I was being flippant, in an attempt to make the exact point
you're making cogently but less pithily here.

cheers

andrew

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