On 2016-05-12 8:54 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> In my view, the principal advantage of the current system is that it
> slow version number inflation. Bumping the first version number every
> year causes you to burn through ten numbers a decade rather than ~2,
> and I find that appealing.
>
> But of course that's a matter of opinion.
This implies that numbers are a scarce resource, which they are not, we have an
infinite number of them. Also mind that even going this way, we aren't going to
get to the end of the 2-digit major versions for a century. -- Darren Duncan