Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> writes:
> On 2/12/20 12:07 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> But we do actually release on calendar year. While it seems not
>> unreasonable that we might fail to ship in time, that would likely lead
>> to one month, two months of delay. Four months? I don't think anybody
>> even imagines such a long delay. It would be seen as utter,
>> unacceptable failure of our release team.
> It has actually happened once: PostgreSQL 9.5 was released in 2016-01-07.
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.
regards, tom lane