Re: Just for fun: Postgres 20?

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> On 2/12/20 12:07 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > marcelo zen escribió:
> > > I'd rather have releases being made when the software is ready and
> > > not when the calendar year mandates it. It seems like a terrible
> > > idea.
> >
> > 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.

It was my undestanding that this prompted us to form the release team,
which has since done a great job of making sure that this does not
happen again.

Of course, this does not mean it won't ever happen again. Even then,
shipping PostgreSQL 23 at the beginning of 2024 wouldn't be a total
disaster in my opinion.

The fact that the community might want to re-think the major release
cycle at some point and not be tied to yearly release numbers is the
most convincing argument against it.

That, and the PR-style "sell-out" it might be regarded as.

Michael

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