On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 05:25:15PM +0100, Juan José Santamaría Flecha wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 3:47 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> >
> > Yeah; I don't think it's *that* unlikely for it to happen again. But
> > my own principal concern about this mirrors what somebody else already
> > pointed out: the one-major-release-per-year schedule is not engraved on
> > any stone tablets. So I don't want to go to a release numbering system
> > that depends on us doing it that way for the rest of time.
> >
> >
> We could you use YYYY as version identifier, so people will not expect
> correlative numbering. SQL Server is being released every couple of years
> and they are using this naming shema. The problem would be releasing twice
> the same year, but how likely would that be?
We've released more than one major version in a year before, so we
have a track record of that actually happening.
Best,
David.
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