Re: Just for fun: Postgres 20?

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 08:28, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> marcelo zen escribió:
> > I'd rather have releases being made when the software is ready and not
> when
> > the calendar year mandates it.
> > It seems like a terrible idea.
>
> But we do actually release on calendar year. While it seems not
> unreasonable that we might fail to ship in time, that would likely lead
> to one month, two months of delay. Four months? I don't think anybody
> even imagines such a long delay. It would be seen as utter,
> unacceptable failure of our release team.
>

All said, I think there's some merit to avoiding a PostgreSQL 13 release,
because
there's enough superstition out there about the infamous "number 13."

Perhaps we could avert it by doing an "April Fool's Postgres 13" release?
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