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From: jian he <[email protected]>
To: Nikolay Samokhvalov <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Isaac Morland <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirk Wolak <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Rename Postgres 19 to Postgres 26 (year-based)?
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 07:28:06 +0800
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On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 6:22 AM Nikolay Samokhvalov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The slip risk, the N+1 marketing-renumbering precedent, and the possibility that cadence may change (biannual or otherwise) -- all make sense.
>
> Year-tied version numbers don't fit. Let me propose something smaller that still addresses the underlying user problem — knowing at a glance how old a release is and when it goes EOL.
>
> I have another, much lighter proposal. In fact, two paths:
>
> 1) Docs. Add something like "Major version NN released YYYY, EOL Mon YYYY" explicitly on pages like:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/index.html
>

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/
After "PDF Version", add another column makes sense to me.

> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/index.html
For these two links, I'm not entirely sure where the best place to put
that information would be.

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