Largely because the previous version numbering was sometimes confusing for the opposite reason: Postgres "major" releases were sometimes interpreted as point re

Largely because the previous version numbering was sometimes confusing for the opposite reason: Postgres "major" releases were sometimes interpreted as point releases. For example, 9.1 to 9.2 was major version jump. While that was understood by those who already understood the versioning scheme, it was often confusing to those outside the community. Josh Berkus discusses this here: http://www.databasesoup.com/2016/05/changing-postgresql-version-numbering.html http://www.databasesoup.com/2016/05/changing-postgresql-vers...