[Slackbuilds-users] PostgreSQL versioning scheme

[Willy Sudiarto Raharjo]

> PostgreSQL changed its versioning scheme with version 10. See
> https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1786/ and
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL#Release_history
> 
> Shouldn't PG_VERSION in system/postgresql.SlackBuild be just "10" in
> order to simplify updates?
> 
> According to https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/upgrading.html cluster
> upgrades are not required for minor releases.
> 
> "Minor releases never change the internal storage format and are always
> compatible with earlier and later minor releases of the same major
> version number. For example, version 10.1 is compatible with version
> 10.0 and version 10.6. [...] To update between compatible versions, you
> simply replace the executables while the server is down and restart the
> server. The data directory remains unchanged — minor upgrades are that
> simple."

I CC the maintainer just in case he didn't follow the list yet


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Willy Sudiarto Raharjo

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