Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christoph Haller
Subject Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?
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Msg-id 200311180920.KAA03562@rodos
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In response to Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?  (Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>)
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> 
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> >   If Win32 actually makes it into 7.5 then yes I believe 8.0 would be
> > appropriate.
> 
> It might be interesting to track Oracle's version number viz. its
> feature list. IOW, a PostgreSQL 8.0 database would be feature
> equivalent to an Oracle 8.0 database. That would mean:
> 
> 1) PITR
> 2) Distributed Tx
> 3) Replication
> 4) Nested Tx
> 5) PL/SQL Exception Handling
> 
> IMHO, a major version number jump should at least match the delta in
> features one finds in the commercial segment with their major version
> number bumps. Otherwise, I suspect it would be viewed as window
> dressing... 
Good point. To me the best argument against so far. 
> 
> Could be wrong, though...
> 
> Mike Mascari
> mascarm@mascari.com
> 
> 
Regards, Christoph 


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