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PostgreSQL versioning changes and next development cycle announcement
- colanderman 10y agoBackground: upgrading PostgreSQL has, until now, required a dump & restore across (what looks to the rest of the world like) "minor" upgrades (e.g. 9.4 → 9.5), due to on-disk format changes. This change brings Postgres more in line with most people's expectations; such releases will instead get a major version bump. (I think until now, major version bumps (e.g. 8.4 → 9.0) had been reserved for backward-incompatible API changes, à la SemVer, but I could be wrong.)