From: | "Gilberto Castillo" <gilberto(dot)castillo(at)etecsa(dot)cu> |
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To: | "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)berkus(dot)org> |
Cc: | "Peter Eisentraut" <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [MASSMAIL]Re: First draft of Beta announcement |
Date: | 2017-05-12 19:02:03 |
Message-ID: | 51632.192.168.207.54.1494615723.squirrel@webmail.etecsa.cu |
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> On 05/12/2017 11:22 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 5/10/17 20:01, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> Folks:
>>>
>>> Read it here:
>>>
>>> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=press.git;a=blob;f=releases/10/beta/10beta1.md;h=f0d2e6ad2637281194ce212f9b7553eff1301c58;hb=HEAD
>>>
>>> Please comment with improvements/suggestions/corrections, or submit
>>> them
>>> to the git repo if you have access.
>>
>> I think the part about "an unusually high number of
>> backwards-incompatible changes" is unnecessarily scary. The number of
>> incompatible changes in the release notes is only slightly higher than
>> in previous releases (10: 19, 9.6: 13, 9.5: 12, 9.4: 22), and half of
>> those are removing ancient junk that no one was using.
>>
>> I get that we want people to test and adjust their applications as early
>> as possible, but how about something like this instead: "Version 10
>> contains a few changes that are incompatible with prior major releases.
>> We encourage all users test it against their applications and platforms
>> as soon as possible."
>
> Ok, I seem to be outvoted on this. How about this as a compromise:
>
> Version 10 contains a few changes that are incompatible with prior major
> releases, particularly renaming "xlog" to "wal" and a change in version
> numbering. We encourage all users test it against their applications and
> platforms as soon as possible. See the Release Notes and the What's New
> page for more details.
>
In Cuba we are already accustomed to hearing incompatibility between
windown versions, Oracle etc. It will sound bad to hear is termino in the
Postgresql world.
--
Saludos,
Gilberto Castillo
ETECSA, La Habana, Cuba
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