Re: Reports on obsolete Postgres versions

On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 02:04:16PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> I tend to agree with Bruce, and major/minor seems to be the more
> common usage within the industry; iirc, debian, ubuntu, gnome, suse,
> and mariadb all use that nomenclature; and ISTR some distro's who
> release packaged versions of postgres with custom patches applied (ie
> 12.4-2 for postgres 12.4 patchlevel 2).
>
> BTW, as a reminder, we do have this statement, in bold, in the
> "upgrading" section of the versioning page:
> "We always recommend that all users run the latest available minor
> release for whatever major version is in use." There is actually
> several other phrases and wording on that page that could probably be
> propagated as replacement language in some of these other areas.

I ended up writing the attached doc patch. I found that some or our
text was overly-wordy, causing the impact of what we were trying to say
to be lessened. We might want to go farther than this patch, but I
think it is an improvement.

I also moved the <strong> text to the bottom of the section ---
previously, our <strong> wording referenced minor releases, then we
talked about major releases, and then minor releases. This gives a more
natural flow.

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