Re: Planning incompatibilities for Postgres 10.0

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Planning incompatibilities for Postgres 10.0
Date: 2013-05-25 17:57:23
Message-ID: CA+U5nMJ3MaWeU2TUkgVVSxB0zLukLd75=okXTG_xh2XED6mxdw@mail.gmail.com
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On 25 May 2013 18:13, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 10:39 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> The constraint on such changes is that we've decided that we must have
>> an upgrade path from release to release.
>
> Is this proposal only relaxing the binary upgrade requirement, or would
> it also relax other compatibility requirements, such as language and API
> compatibility?

I'm suggesting that as many as possible changes we would like to make
can happen in one release. This is for the benefit of users, so we
dont make every release a source of incompatibilities.

And that release should be the first one where we have online upgrade
possible, which is one after next.

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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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