On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 10:20 PM Nikolay Samokhvalov <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was thinking: > > in my mind, Postgres 9.6 was associated with 2016, and "6" at the end of both > the version and the year always helped me memorize the release year. > > Memorizing is important when you deal with many databases running different > versions of Postgres – this gives you perspective how old the version is. > > And over last 10 years, the release cycle is pretty stable, one major version > per year. So if the upcoming version were 26 instead of 19, and next year's > were 27, it would be easier to understand how current this version is.
Interesting. I think macOS has gone through a similar evolution, macOS Tahoe (Version 26.5), released in May 2025. We could also give each major release a name, which sounds pretty interesting to me. Ubuntu uses a year-based versioning scheme and gives each LTS release a name, while Debian does not use year-based versions but still assigns a name to every release. > > Nik -- Regards Junwang Zhao
