Re: how to gate experimental features (SQL/PGQ)

On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 8:11 PM David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, Kai Wagner <kai.wagner@percona.com> wrote:
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>> For the actual timing, this should occur as part of the major release.
>> We should definitely avoid incorporating experimental features into
>> minor updates, as this contradicts the overall stability and concept
>> of the current major updates.
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> That wasn’t the idea though.  What is your opinion on changing the behavior of an experimental feature added in 19.0
inthe 19.4 release so long as it doesn’t require initdb? 
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Perhaps I wasn't fully clear with my statement, but I was referring to
introducing new experimental features, not adjusting/fixing/improving
existing and already shipped experimental features. That, of course,
is and should be part of a minor update, as you don't want to wait
another year for actual fixes and improvements to land for existing
ones.

Kai
> David J.
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