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From: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2025 08:21:14 -0700
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Subject: Re: libpq-oauth: a mid-beta naming check
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 2:39=E2=80=AFAM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.n=
l> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 at 01:20, Jacob Champion
> <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> > So, as we approach Beta 3: can anyone think of a way that this plan wil=
l fail?
>
> It's not entirely clear what plan exactly you talk about here. Are you
> saying you want to remove the -MAJOR suffix now for PG18? Or you want
> to postpone doing that until PG19, when you would have designed a
> stable API?

That is a PG19 plan. I don't want to make any changes for 18 unless
someone can see a fatal flaw; this is just my mid-beta check.

> If your goal is to remove this
> during-upgrade breakage after PG19, then I'd say that seems totally
> fine for a new feature.

That's the hope, yes.

Thanks!
--Jacob