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alvherre

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    Comment #33204900

    Before version 10, the versioning scheme was different, and the first number was increased about once every five years: for example, 9.6 and 9.5 were consecutive yearly major relea…

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    Comment #33204856

    Postgres has a strict schedule of quarterly bugfix releases, and only deviates from that when serious bugs occur (very rare). So, no.

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    Comment #30858429

    Yes, MERGE is specified by the SQL standard. Our implementation (Postgres) aims to conform to the standard, so it should roughly match what both Oracle and SQL Server offer. (Micro…

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    Comment #1807420

    We strive to have exactly one feature or bugfix per commit. Squashing commits to a single one does not mean we mix stuff randomly.