All,
> Perhaps we should also adopt an ubuntu-like strategy of naming the
> releases. That'll give people the impression of major version changes
> instead of the number. For example, perhaps the next version could be
> code named "Cornucopious Core" or something ;-) Kind of like "Hardy
> Heron", or "Dapper Dan" . I think today people tend to refer to the
Gods forfend!
Not that you were serious, but I actually rank the Ubuntu release naming
scheme as "experimental failure" (kind of like "Postgres95"), and wish
Ubuntu would go back to naming the releases after the date, or just use
numbers like everyone else. I'm forever trying to remember whether the
current release is "Dapper Dalmation" or "Stellar Sparrow" or "Woody
Woodpecker" or "Moose & Squirrel". And don't get me started on Apple
and their releases of OSX "Ocelot" and "Caracal". It's a release naming
scheme which caters exclusively to insiders.
Seriously, though, the real issue we'll run into with PostgreSQL 10 is
that there's several Linux distributors (including, I think, Red Hat)
which are using a package serial scheme which doesn't include a leading
"0". So the upcoming version is 80400, not 080400, and will cause them
to do some rejiggering when we do eventually release version 10.
--Josh