Re: New version numbering practices

Tom Lane wrote:

> Also, it strikes me that we need a new convention for how we talk about
> release branches informally.  Up to now, mentioning say "9.5" without
> any further qualification in a PG-list message was usually sufficient
> to indicate a branch number, but I do not think that will work so well
> if one just writes "10".  I'm tempted to start writing branch numbers
> as something like "PG10" or "v10".  Thoughts?

I agree that writing just "10" might be confusing in some places, though
I also agree with dfetter than it might be obvious in other contexts.
Either "pg10" or "v10" look good to me.  Capitalizing it as PG10 is okay
though I'm not sure that most would bother (I probably wouldn't).

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