The recent discussion on -hackers was leaning strongly to the idea that
our upcoming release should be called 8.0 not 7.5, and after some
small private argument the core committee agrees. We have a number of
new features that warrant a major version bump (savepoints, PITR, native
Windows port --- IMHO any one of those would do it). What may be even
more to the point, we have enough internal changes in support of these
things that we cannot honestly say to the world that this release will
be more stable than the last one. Truth-in-advertising mandates that
we call this an N.0 release, not an N.5 release. There are people out
there who will avoid an N.0 release, and in all honesty we cannot tell
them they shouldn't avoid this one.
Accordingly, it's hereby decreed that PG-next will be PG 8.0.
[ now, where did I put that puff of white smoke? ]
regards, tom lane
