On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgri...@ymail.com> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Tom, for example, has previously not wanted to even bump >> catversion after beta1, which rules out a huge variety of >> possible fixes and interface changes. If we want to make a >> policy decision to change our approach, we should be up-front >> about that. > > What?!? There have been catversion bumps between the REL?_?_BETA1 > tag and the REL?_?_0 tag for 8.2, 8.3, 9.0, 9.1, 9.3, and 9.4. > (That is, it has happend on 6 of the last 8 releases.) I don't > think we're talking about any policy change here. We try to avoid > a catversion bump after beta if we can; we're not that reluctant to > do so if needed.
Perhaps we're honoring this more in the breech than in the observance, but I'm not making up what Tom has said about this: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/27310.1251410...@sss.pgh.pa.us http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/19174.1299782...@sss.pgh.pa.us http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3413.1301154...@sss.pgh.pa.us http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3261.1401915...@sss.pgh.pa.us -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
