Robert Treat <r...@xzilla.net> writes: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 1:12 PM Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 09:21:27AM -0700, Jeremy Schneider wrote: >>> In my view, the best thing would be to move toward consistently using >>> the word "patch" and moving away from the word "minor" for the >>> PostgreSQL quarterly maintenance updates.
>> I think "minor" is a better term since it contrasts with "major". We >> don't actually supply patches to upgrade minor versions. > I tend to agree with Bruce, and major/minor seems to be the more > common usage within the industry; iirc, debian, ubuntu, gnome, suse, > and mariadb all use that nomenclature; and ISTR some distro's who > release packaged versions of postgres with custom patches applied (ie > 12.4-2 for postgres 12.4 patchlevel 2). Agreed, we would probably add confusion not reduce it if we were to change our longstanding nomenclature for this. I'm +1 on rewriting these documentation pages though. Seems like they could do with a whole fresh start rather than just tweaks around the edges --- what we've got now is an accumulation of such tweaks. regards, tom lane